Rainforest Tears

by Paul Leslie Smith

Borneo, 1937: Geoffrey Portas arrives to work in the oilfields of Sarawak, a place where exotica substitutes tedium and cerulean seas replace grey English winters. Gripped by location and circumstances, life in this sultry sanctuary of colonial languor exceeds all expectations.

Then, life is torn asunder as Japanese bombs rain down across the Pacific. Asian attitudes change as the avaricious, compassionless minority sense the loosening of their colonial shackles. Conscripted into Britain’s Special Operations Executive, Portas sets about fighting a merciless enemy.

(From Publisher).

Paul Leslie Smith is a British expatriate engineer who has spent the last seventeen years working in Malaysia, the first four of which were in Miri, Sarawak’s oil Town.

An avid reader, Paul has long harboured an interest in Southeast Asian history, from the era of the Spice Islands and formation of the Straits Settlement through to the present day.