War correspondent Colin Frere is on assignment in Malia, a
Southeast Asian state consumed by civil conflict and revolution. He
is abducted by the Communist guerrillas - actually by
prearrangement. His mission is to understand the rebels and their
charismatic leader - not least because his own elder brother once
fought alongside them. But he soon finds that idealism trumps
journalistic detachment and he becomes an active soldier in the
revolutionary cause. His journey and that of his adopted country
involves heroism, romance, comradeship - and ultimately betrayal.
Heroes in the Evening Mist was the last novel by the prolific
author William Ash, who died in 2014, and it has hitherto been
unpublished. Ash was born in Texas but fought as a Spitfire pilot
in the Second World War before spending three years in a German
prisoner-of-war camp. His repeated attempts to escape made him one
of the models for the character played by Steve McQueen in the film
The Great Escape and were chronicled in his best-selling memoir
Under the Wire. He was a lifelong socialist and his final work
shows a rare sympathetic engagement not only with the cause of
post-colonial liberation but also with the problems faced by
revolutionary governments once they have won power
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