Description
A two-book set.
It is 1952, the height of the Malayan emergency. As ten men travel through the terrorist-infested jungle, one of them asks the question: "What were you doing ten years ago?' This story answers that question.
Against a backdrop of the Second World War and the uneasy peace that followed, the pattern of their lives emerges. One man has known and loved the wives of two of his companions; one has fought with the terrorists he now pursues. After years of bitterness and hardship, another is about to find some happiness; a fourth can only face the past through a haze of alcohol.
But across those ten years their lives have touched. Gradually they are drawn together in a brilliantly complex pattern up to the day of their fateful journey through the jungle.
