Saffron's Army — Frederick E. Smith

SAFFRON'S ARMY -- THE MISFITS THAT NOBODY WANTED...

A gang of bully-boys, service criminals and murderers. After a series of misfortunes Alan Saffron and his mate, Ken Bickers, find themselves thrown into the group.

Saffron only wanted to get in some real action in the war. Instead he found himself in a god-forsaken part of the jungle in Eastern Africa and in charge of this ill-disciplined and dangerous squad. When the brutally murdered body of a native boy is found near the camp Saffron realises he must fight not just the enemy but his own men.

Frederick E. Smith (1919-2012) joined the R.A.F. in 1939 as a wireless operator/air gunner and commenced service in early 1940, serving in Britain, Africa and finally the Far East. At the end of the war he married and worked for several years in South Africa before returning to England to fulfill his life-long ambition to write. Two years later, his first play was produced and his first novel published. Since then, he wrote over forty novels, about eighty short stories and two plays. Two novels, 633 Squadron and The Devil Doll, were made into films.