Saffron's Army

"...raw and brutal novel of army life in a forgotten corner of the war." - BOOKLIST After a series of misfortunes, Alan Saffron and his mate, Ken Bickers, find themselves thrown into a group of misfits - a gang of bully-boys, service criminals and murderers. Saffron only wanted to get in some real action in the war. Instead, he found himself in a god-forsaken part of the jungle in Eastern Africa and in charge of this ill-disciplined and dangerous squad. When the brutally murdered body of a native boy is found near the camp, Saffron realizes he must fight not just the enemy but his own men.