Author Talk | Harry Hobbs & Stephen Young

Scorpio Books and Penguin New Zealand warmly welcome you to an author talk featuring Harry Hobbs and Stephen Young, authors of Outlawed: Responding to the Global Rise of Sovereign Citizens and Legal Conspiracies.

Across the world, people are falling for pseudolaw: a fast-growing movement built on conspiracy theories, quasilegal rituals and the promise that ordinary people can outsmart governments, banks and courts. Its followers call themselves sovereign citizens, freemen, state nationals or constitutional warriors. Critics call it a scam.

Outlawed takes readers deep inside a world of courtroom confrontations, YouTube gurus, viral traffic stops, online radicalisation and anti-government extremism. It traces the movement from its 19th-century origins to deadly shootings, attempted coups and bizarre court cases involving doppelgangers, secret trusts and accusations of treason and sorcery.

All welcome, this is a free event. Refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. Tuesday 25th August, 5.30pm. In-store at Scorpio Books.