Mike Bodnar had razor blade held to his neck in France

Former TVNZ regional news anchor and Telethon presenter Mike Bodnar has had a razor blade held against his neck in France during a soccer game.

This is just one of the revelations to emerge from his forthcoming book Against the Current, due for launch in New Zealand in November.

‘The game was into injury time – appropriately – and this guy’s team wasn’t doing too well,’ explains Mike. ‘He obviously wasn’t happy, and the phrase “dying moments of the game” occurred to me, but I managed to escape. It would be fair to say that money changed hands.’

Mike and his wife Liz cast off from New Zealand in 2013 to go and live on a boat in France. Against the Current is Mike’s oblique look at travelling through the French inland waterways by two people with no experience or qualifications, during which they’re boarded by armed police, nearly lose their boat, and pull a near-drowned body from the water. Apart from Mike’s fate resting on a soccer game, he angrily accuses a Frenchman of not knowing ‘how to soil a bat.’

This is their adventure, a book for anyone who’s ever thought they might like to just get away from it all, throw caution to the wind and see what tomorrow feels like. It takes you to the limits, brings you down to earth, but most of all it will make you laugh out loud.

Now living in England, Mike Bodnar will be visiting New Zealand in November to talk about the adventures he and Liz had aboard their boat Liberty, and to launch his book Against the Current in Auckland and Wellington. (Auckland launch is at Richmond Yacht Club, Westhaven Marina, 5 November, 6pm)

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