Pillage, death and destruction greeted the birth of Zimbabwe. Lives of innocents mean nothing in the power politics of the 1970's. Harry Andrews, amazed by what he discovers there, resigns his commission in the R.A.F. immigrates there and finds a job as a charter pilot. An accident thrusts him into a melee of treachery, spies, raids and inhumanity in the disintegrating rebel state. He falls in love, resigns his job and goes farming where he learns how to survive in an increasing spiral of violence. Helped by his friend Peter Templar, he also learns about Africa. They return to England, where...