Brian Rowell is a sergeant in the part-time Rhodedsian Army, in the nineteen seventies, fighting against African guerillas determined to take their country back from its colonial rulers. He does his duty without question, until he realises that the war is degenerating into one of vicious attrition, mainly against civilians, where the atrocities of one side match the other. He and a handful of volunteers, decide to fight only armed guerrillas. Usually outnumbered and out-gunned by the guerrillas they clash with, they develop a reputation for ruthlessness, but their flat refusal, against direct orders, to harass civilians, gets them into deep trouble with Army Command. Rowell fights on, trapped by a war that has become completely pointless. He has a love-hate relationship with a beautiful English woman, also trapped by the war. She hates Rowell the soldier, but loves Rowell the man. This creates unbearable tension between them until the explosive climax.
- ISBN10 1409242021
- ISBN13 9781409242024
- Publish Date 19 November 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 February 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format Paperback
- Pages 267
- Language English