A memoir detailing the actions surrounding the author's service in Afghanistan as a technical adviser to an NGO of the United Nations de-mining programme throughout 1991. The book recalls riveting and at times frightening observations whilst also describing a variety of incidents and anecdotes emphasizing humour, fear and determination. The book presents an energetic and enthralling series of encounters with warlords, Mujahadeen fighters and hardy engineers and bomb disposal personnel during one year in the life of an Australian soldier, sent alone into the remote wilds of Afghanistan.