David R. Bird was born during WWII in West London. At the age of 18, tired of Britain’s climate and a job that was going nowhere, he impulsively joined the British South Africa Police in Southern Rhodesia and this was the beginning of a life of travel that resulted in his living in five different countries, visiting over forty, and traveling the world. He has been both a civil servant and an entrepreneur, experienced many highs and lows, and believes that each encounter has played a part in creating the ordinary man he is today.
In 1962, a naive young Londoner named Dick Starling embarks on what he believes will be a simple three-year stint in the British colonial police force of Warania, a peaceful yet fictitious country in central Africa. However, his adventure quickly takes a wild turn, filled with unexpected twists, rom...
While German bombs were falling on London people didn’t worry too much when hearing Hitler’s doodlebugs, the dreaded V1 flying bomb. But when the noise stopped then they were worried because they knew that the rocket was about to drop – on them!David, hanging in a basket inside an air raid she...
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