In July 1985, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, a symbol of peace, suffers a pair of explosions that sink the ship and kill a crew member. The hunt for the perpetrators begins.

The story of how a young group of detectives, with no prior experience of international crime, caught some of the world's most sophisticated and highly-trained military saboteurs.

The bomber himself reveals how he came to plant the bombs on the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior and the measures he took to escape New Zealand after the attack.