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River in Borneo: A Tale of the East Indies

River in Borneo: A Tale of the East Indies

Woodman, Richard

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General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 1493061925
ISBN13: 9781493061921
Publisher: McBooks Press
Published: Oct 15 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
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 in use 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. What he finds not only enables Kirton to fulfil his mission, but also turns out to be intensely personal and macabre as the truth behind the strange event is revealed. From this highly charged opening sequence, the story flashes back a century to 1867, 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.

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