A River in Borneo - A Tale of the East Indies (Hardcover)

It is the summer of 1964 during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called 'Confrontation'. A British Royal Marine patrol has orders to penetrate Indonesian Borneo to locate a river thought by Allied intelligence to be being used by the Indonesians to build up supplies before launching a major attack on Sarawak. Charged with this mission, Lieutenant Charles Kirton makes a most extraordinary discovery amid the dense mangrove swamps bordering a river in Borneo. Not only does this discovery enable Kirton to fulfill his mission but it is quite coincidentally intensely personal and unpleasantly macabre. From this highly-charged opening sequence, the story flashes back a century to 1867, revealing the truth behind this strange event, when young Henry Kirton, Second Officer of the auxiliary steamship River Tay, is dumped ashore in Singapore, badly injured by a fall from the rigging of his ship. Woodman's compelling tale has echoes of Joseph Conrad.

General

Imprint:	McBooks Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Modern Naval Fiction Library
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Richard Woodman
Dimensions:	238 x 160 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-4930-6192-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	1-4930-6192-5
Barcode:	9781493061921

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