Headhunters of Borneo (SAS Operation)
By (Author) Shaun Clarke
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
20th June 2016
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
208
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 13mm
150g
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS recruit primitive natives to help them thwart an invading rebel force
1963: Viewing the formation of a new political entity, the Federation of Malaysia, as a threat to his dreams of expansion, Indonesian President Sukarno orders insurgents into Borneo. In response, the British organize a force of Malay, British and Commonwealth troops to contain the rebels.
What is desperately needed, however, is a specialist group who can perform highly dangerous and arduous military tasks in the inhospitable, perilous terrain. Braving jungle and swamp, the SAS are dispatched to live with the primitive, headhunting natives, to try to win hearts and minds with medical aid and assistance, in the hope of recruiting them as Border Scout paramilitaries.
As the training progresses, other SAS soldiers move even deeper into the unexplored jungle the Gap to establish ambush sites and helicopter LZs. These Tiptoe Boys conduct daring Claret raids across the border, hitting hard and vanishing fast, ambushing enemy troops moving along the many jungle tracks and rivers. It will be a bloody, nightmarish war and the SAS must win it.
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David Monnery is the pseudonym of a well-known English author of crime and thriller fiction. He lives in Surrey with his wife and two cats.