Connell, Brian, - RETURN OF THE TIGER.

Sundial, London, 1980, 1st in imprint, paperback, 223pp, maps in text, coloured pictorial wrappers (unattrib.), account of the exploits of a young Gordon Highlanders officer who in Malaya, 1942 joned Force 136, a network of spies and sabateurs being built up by Special Operations Executive. In 1943 after Singapore had fallen Lyon commanded Z Force, a mixed team of British and Australian sabateurs who travelled from Australia to sink enemy shipping in Singapore Harbour with limpet mines, Operation Jaywick. After this success a larger group undertook a further Operation Rimau in 1944 but they were intercepted by the Japanese, Lyon ordered most of his party to return and undertook a reduced raid with four others, then returning by attempting to island hop back to Australia. Many members of this operation were either killed in action or executed after capture, including Lyon, edges tanned, near fine,

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