MACHETE AND THE GHOST

MACHETE AND THE GHOST

OSCAR KIGHTLEY AND JAMES GRIFFIN

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The greatest sports biography you never read, by two of NZ's greatest comedic writers.

For two weeks that turned into three long, gruelling months, writers James Griffin (Outrageous Fortune, Westside, The Almighty Johnsons) and Oscar Kightley (Sione's Wedding, bro'Town) endured a a luxurious French chateau, glorious French cuisine and the best known wines to humanity in order to sit down Leilei ('Machete') LeiLei Junior and Neil ('The Ghost') Turnbull, the greatest bro'mance in rugby history, to listen to and record the stories of their lives - from their humble origins in Samoa and Mairangi Bay to becoming two of the most celebrated, but also the most maligned, rugby players of their generation.

Griffin and Kightley travelled all the way to the insanely picturesque village of Beynac-et-Cazenac to learn the truth behind the controversies and the controversies behind the truth. They stayed not only for the food and wine and excellent company, but to ask really hard questions and then write this book, in which some of these questions are answered:

  • Was it true they were both high as kites on their test debut?
  • What was the real story behind the infamous handbag video?
  • And pissing on the pitch, what was that all about?
  • Whatever happened to My Samoan Food Chest?
  • And how the hell did someone who had never kicked a goal in his life end up taking the crucial penalty shot in the last minute of the World Cup Final?

Machete & The Ghost is the book that charts the careers of the two greatest All Blacks who never existed. It chronicles their mythical on-field achievements and tells invented stories about the behind-the-scenes goings on. Totally made up, but by people who know and love the game of rugby enough to make all the bullshit sound entirely plausible.

ISBN: 9781988516646
Imprint: Upstart
Publication Date: August 2019
Dimensions: 150mm x 234mm
Weight: 650g
No. Of Pages: 242


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