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Cover art: Paul Hogarth
Blurb: “Scobie, a police officer in a fly-blown West African colony during the war, is above suspicion
Then, passed over for promotion, he is forced to borrow money from a Syrian trader to send his faded wife, Louise, on holiday.
In her absence he falls in love with a pathetic child widow. and, inexorably, his conscience and his love of God lead him to disaster.
'The most accomplished, the most expert of all our contemporaries in his art, the most beguiling of story-tellers and the most elegant' - Daily Telegraph.“