Distilled into the adventures of the fictitious Tom Hero, Mr Boomslang & 7 Other Rhodesian Fireside Tales chronicles life in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia in the 1960's. Taken from the experience of Douglas John Schorr who served as both a civil servant in Rhodesia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (Intaf), and a Lieutenant in the Rhodesian Territorial Army, these are tales of all of the human experience - from the gloriously comic to the heartrendingly tragic, told with humour and candour about a time that is no more.