I Nicked Brezhnev's Brick

From Russia's Red Square to the red heart of Australia, I Nicked Brezhnev's Brick - Confessions of a Kiwi Backpacker is the tale of a young New Zealander's 'Coming of age', in the Cold War dominated world that existed in the early 1970s. The rite of passage of many Kiwis is to do the 'Big OE', experiencing first-hand what lies beyond the shores of our little antipodean isles. Rob Shannon, as one of the baby boomer generation, who was fortunate because he had no war to fight, just a world to conquer. n nI Nicked Brezhnev's Brick - Confessions of a Kiwi Backpacker is a journey of insight into the politics of hate and ideology, that are now in the dustbin of history but still chillingly relevant, as the stint on a Kibbutz on the volatile Lebanese border reveals. From chipping a brick out of the Kremlin wall under the very noses of patrolling Soviet guards to being shot by an Israeli army patrol as a suspected Palestinian terrorist on the Dead Sea. Being stoned by an incensed gang of Catholic youth in the streets of Northern Ireland's Bogside, to seeing his local host being bayoneted to death on a dusty road in Bangladesh. Rob's confessions are exploits covering four years of an odyssey to places round the globe. n nAll lessons should teach the individual some truth. I Nicked Brezhnev's Brick - Confessions of a Kiwi Backpacker is about the 'lessons of life' the road teaches all that travel its path. A fast moving, action packed, and captivating read, as Rob relates stories of survival and succour along with insights into the planet Earth as it existed thirty odd years ago.

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