A Good Clean Fight
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Good Clean Fight
By (Author) Derek Robinson
Quercus Publishing
MacLehose Press
1st October 2012
2nd August 2012
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
528
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 34mm
420g
Description
North Africa, 1942. Dust, heat, thirst, flies. A good clean fight, for those who like that sort of thing, and some do. From an advanced landing field, striking hard and escaping fast, our old friends from Hornet Squadron (Piece of Cake) play Russian roulette, flying their clapped-out Tomahawks on ground-strafing forays. Meanwhile, on the ground, the men of Captain Lampard's S.A.S. patrol drive hundreds of miles behind enemy lines to plant bombs on German aircraft.
This is the story of a war of no glamour and few heroes, in a setting often more lethal than the enemy.Reviews
'Robinson should be mentioned in the same breath as Mailer, Ballard or Heller. A masterpiece' Express. * Express *
'Nobody writes about the war quite like Derek Robinson' Mike Petty, Independent. * Independent *
'Robinson writes with tireless enthusiasm which never sacrifices detail to pace, or vice versa ... Terrific' Jennifer Selway, Observer. * Observer *
Author Bio
Derek Robinson, the son of a policeman, read history at Cambridge before working in advertising in London and New York. His novel Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1971.
