Award-winning journalist and Grey Lynn resident. David Robie was on board the Greenpeace environmental ship Rainbow Warrior on its last mission to Rongelap Atoll in May 1985 and stayed with the ship until it reached Auckland in July. Robie’s account of this voyage — of the Marshall Islands community poisoned by nuclear fallout and of the
fatal bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by the French secret service — remains a definitive work on Western treachery in the Pacific. But, it also shows the power of good people who were willing to stand up and be counted when others desperately needed their help.
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The 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior occured on 10 July 2025, the day this book was launched.
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This edition (the 6th) provides updates on the crew and others involved in the saga, including the French agents that bombed the Rainbow Warrior.
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Robie also updates us on the political fallout and the current position of the Pacific with regard to nuclear testing and the legacy of colonialism.
Eyes of Fire –
The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
978-1-877484-51-3 Published July 2025 RRP $50.00 (NZ) softcover
240 pages
216 x 216 mm
Author: David Robie
Published by Little Island Press
The book has been published by an independent publisher, Little Island Press https://littleisland.nz/books/eyes-fire
