The book is a satire on the New Zealand justice system which goes out of its way to treat criminals with deference and respect and adopts a benign approach to mitigate punishment to a level that can only be described as style="color:#333333;">As one reader put it: You've got to be out of your mind to read this  

It's wacky, it's funny and it's packed with awful puns, silly jokes and weird references to Shakespeare, Gilbert & Sullivan and Alexander Pope. It also has a pre-published review/quote by the White House Resident which is genuine fake news. And it goes from bad to verse (pardon the pun) with a 74- stanza poem on a cricket match -- which is a scream if you happen to know the game. And yes, it's a parody of Casey at the Bat, the great American style="color:#333333;">And if that doesn't knock you off your perch the main characters are a Bull, a Shark and a Meerkat. And the whole idea revolves around 14 Defence Strategies by the Shark and the Bull to get the defendant Meerkat off the hook, because his wife has 'disappeared' and he's the prime suspect charged