Steven Fraser was relieved to be leaving Indonesia at the end of his contract. Corruption and brutality had been increasingly the order of the day in the newly independent state of Sunda. But Fraser's trip home had barely begun when he tumbled into the thick of a military coup which threatened still further the island's tottering stability. He seemed merely an unimportant pawn in a violent political game, but only his technical expertise could buy Fraser his life - and that of his all too vulnerable fellow hostage.