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A River in Borneo : A Tale of the East Indies, Paperback / softback Book

A River in Borneo : A Tale of the East Indies Paperback / softback

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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 being used 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.

Not only does this discovery enable Kirton to fulfill his mission but it is quite coincidentally intensely personal and unpleasantly macabre.

From this highly-charged opening sequence, the story flashes back a century to 1867, revealing the truth behind this strange event, 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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