Madmen: Inside the weirdest election campaign ever, by writer renowned writer Steve Braunias tells the full, weird story of the 2014 election campaign, through close and bizarre encounters with all the main players, including a hallucinogenic bus trip through the North Island with Prime Minister John Key.Says parliamentary press gallery supremo Jumbo Trudgeon, "Most political journalism in New Zealand is so boring. I should know. But this book tells it in an altogether new and perhaps crazed way...I laughed till I passed out." The cover image was painted by subversive Hamilton man Joshua Drummond and depicts the Prime Minister in a state of bliss.