All the characters in this book are based on real people and all the events that happen are true. The buildings, camps, prisons and other locations are all exactly as they were in 1945!

This novel is set in Jersey, during World War Two, when The Channel Islands were occupied by Germany. It is very much based on fact: all the buildings, streets, munitions and army terms are accurate, and all the incidents that take place in the novel are taken from incidents that actually happened during the war. After the first year of occupation the only resistance to the Germans came from the children of the island, indeed at one time the schools had to close because virtually all the teenagers were locked up in the local prison…this is the basis for the story.

There are four main characters in the story, Rex, Sue, David and Marianne. The first three are old friends, David and Sue are twins and Rex is their leader and Sue has a crush on Rex. Sue is very outspoken while David is a quiet follower of the others. Rex is the driving force, he leads the children of Jersey and is very brave, enjoying dangerous confrontations with the Germans. Marianne is the good girl of the school and very much a loner, she always obeys the teachers and the Germans and Rex finds himself having to act as her protector from the other children when they begin to view her as a traitor.

One night Rex finds out that Marianne is hiding a family of Jews in the hills and brings in the other two to help her. To their astonishment, the girl who spends her nights working in her father’s hotel: Dancing With The Enemy, is her own one-woman resistance group, receiving orders from Britain. Sue is wildly jealous of Marianne’s growing relationship with Rex but is forced to subdue it when they join forces. Rex’s group, who, up till then, had merely crept around painting Victory Vs everywhere, now find themselves involved in a much more dangerous business: smuggling fugitives, disarming mines and spying.

The novel is full of action and emotion, but the story is about the realities of war: the sacrifices that have to be made. But it is not a sad book, it is full of the humour that dangerous situations bring and the accelerated relationships that take place in time of war.

Sadly things turn tragic when his wife is murdered and Rupert decides to get his revenge. The police know exactly what is happening but Rupert manages to foil them at every turn as one by one he hunts down the men who killed his wife and deals with them in his own imitable fashion.

The book is tragic and violent and sexy but the very eccentricities of the leading character can bring humour into any situation and will have the reader cheering him on all the way.

This thrilling novel has an action packed storyline with an international political base. It is extremely fast paced and the action ranges from Exeter to Washington and on to Japan, London, Brussels and Iraq. The plot revolves around the idea that the Japanese are trying to get Britain and China to go to war over a crisis in Hong Kong.  The weapon they are using is mind control, training certain highly intelligent and uniquely skilled people into influencing Western political leaders.

The plotlines are all brought to a focus by the central character, the bizarre Rupert Bannister who comes across as an amiable idiot. The whole book is about this very different character, he does not fit into the normal hero role at all: he is short and fat and looks like an uneducated farm boy, Rupert is that rarest of all creatures, the violent intellectual. He seems totally irresponsible and frequently acts like a child. He loves bizarre situations, for example he quite enjoys a night on a park bench or in jail. He seeks out violent people because he enjoys a good fight yet he is as gentle as a lamb. He loves hard manual labour yet Rupert is one of the few people in the world who can take on these mind control people, or Senders as they are known scientifically.

Rupert is first employed by the CIA to track down the Senders but then he becomes more heavily involved, because his partnership in this, with Sanchia Clarke, turns into a love affair.  When Sanchia is taken by the Senders, Rupert starts a search which finally results in an amazing trek across the Iraqi desert to break into the Sender’s complex.  Finding out just how serious the Senders assault is, on the world, leads Rupert to a major confrontation within the United Nations and particularly with the Prime Minister of Britain and the UN Secretary General.  Finally Rupert joins in a full scale assault on the Sender’s complex.

The book has a strong scientific and political basis all drawn very much on fact.  It relies more on emphasizing situations and processes that are going on in the world today rather than imagining new ones.  For example: Senders do exist!  European businessmen and politicians use transducers when negotiating inside Japan to stop their minds being deliberately confused by external influences.

The book contains scenes of personal violence as well as love and sex scenes, though the central character’s eccentricity can put humour into the most dangerous situations.