This book deals in no timid way with the horrors and problems of Mau Mau.
This is a novel depicting men and women, most of them reared in quiet British homes, whose destiny it became to keep up the façade of the same life in the terrifying, sinister atmosphere of Kenya at the time of the of the Mau Mau.
Sandy was engaged in operations against this murderous brotherhood and has created an unforgettable picture of the initiation ceremonies and organization of terror and death by which they tried to oust the settlers. There is a plot—and a good and exciting one at that, but what will most impress the reader is Sandy’s extraordinary knack of being able to recreate an atmosphere of foreboding and terror which he has observed with his own eyes, against a superb natural setting, in terms which will bring i home to the reader far more vividly than any straight piece of reporting could ever do.
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