WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD
'The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings' - V. S. Pritchett
Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
