Death of a Coast Watcher
Death of a Coast Watcher In 1943 on Bougainville Island, New Guinea, a Japanese officer beheads Hugh Rand, an Australian spy -- a coast watcher. Rand's influence transcends his death. The spectators…
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Death of a Coast Watcher
In 1943 on Bougainville Island, New Guinea, a Japanese officer beheads Hugh Rand, an Australian spy -- a coast watcher. Rand's influence transcends his death. The spectators include villagers he terrorised as his mind frayed under the stress of pursuit by soldiers and their hounds.
Who misperceives? Lies? For decades he plagues characters who strive to cope with him and one another in New Guinea, the Gilbert Islands, Australia and Japan. Self-destructs? Suffers? Loves?
The layers unfold as the author entices us through cultural, historical and intellectual curtains, deep into minds and relationships disturbed by the Pacific war and Rand's
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