The biggest deal of an international criminal network in the Pacific is thwarted by an ordinary couple.

Far North tells the (mostly) true story of how the most comically inept gang to ever join forces got half a billion dollars' worth of meth to New Zealand shores - and nearly to market. And they would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for a pesky 70-year-old Maori diesel mechanic and his aqua-aerobics instructing wife.—vhavnal