Author Description

This action packed novel is set in the mid-fifties when post war Empires were fragmenting from independence, communists were under every bed and the atomic age was still a delinquent vandalising small Pacific islands. Two rough and ready characters Able Seamen Amy Armitage and Kenny McBain navigate their way through service life, their odyssey embracing fortune and calamity. Their adventures include hoodwinking a small mill town by attempting to bury an old soldier in land fit for heroes, kidnapping two sailors from a military hospital to facilitate their last run ashore, destroying a Hollywood epic being made in the Mediterranean when they volunteer as film extras and escape from their ship s involvement in the first atomic tests by deserting in Western Australia.