South By Java Head by Alistair MacLean (1958)

South by Java Head
by Alistair MacLean
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Copyright: 1958
Book Club Edition

Alistair MacLean has added new dimension to the realism of his H.M.S. Ulysses and the high adventure of his The Guns of Navarone in the new, fully rounded novel of men (and women) in war.

Of all who wished to escape before burning Singapore fell to the Japanese, graying Brigadier Fernholme had the most urgent need to elude capture: in his belt were secrets holding a continent's fate.

His necessity was the good fortune -- or so it seemed in the brief haze of dawn -- of a strange group of refugees, for he commandeered the last ship in Singapore, a rusty old derelict captained by a man who would sail anywhere if the payment was high enough. Then came a desperate try for freedom in ship and lifeboat.

There was lovely Gudrun Drachmann, the nurse whose goodness showed in her care of the little waif, Peter . . . there was Chief Mate Johnny Nicolson, who knew the odds against surviving both enemy air attack and exposure at sea . . . and there was prim, stiff-backed Miss Plenderleith, and a man claiming to be a Dutch planter, and the merciless captain of the rotting slave ship.

They and the others -- the wounded, the courageous, the self-sacrificing, the weak -- who slipped quietly out of Singapore harbor are the unforgettable characters in this gripping novel of escape, setback, rising and falling hopes, and magnificent adventure in the danger-filled seas of the East Indies.

Condition: Used. Hardcover. Dust cover shows a bit of edge war, darkening from age. Pages are tanned and darkening by age. Previous owner's name and date of purchase is on the front endpaper. There's an envelope pasted to the front endpaper as a way for the previous owner to keep track of her borrowed books.

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