A perspective on the green movement, as seen through the eyes of Pete Wilkinson, one-time director of Greenpeace. This book describes the early campaigns characteristic of Greenpeace, and takes the reader to the continent of Antarctica to witness the struggle against pollution there.

The author describes with graphic and compulsive language such experiences as a confrontation with a Japanese whaling ship, witnessing the skuppering of the famous Rainbow Warrior and the many successful campaigns against nuclear testing. These experiences are conveyed in such a way as to make "Warrior" as compulsive as it is informative. This book is an essentially personal account of a life spent within a movement which represents the outstanding preoccupation of our era. Amusing and anecdotal passages are present alongside documentation of excitement, protest and fear. Timed to coincide with a major Channel 4 documentary on the Green movement, the author questions whether the environmental movement has become a victim of its own success. He asks whether it has lost direction in the post-Rio days in which the issues have been usurped by the politicians and industry. And from his unique standpoint and unshakeable commitment he is able to throw as much energy into solution-finding as he ever did when David McTaggart described him as the most "ornery bastard the environmental movement could ever come up with".