Author: Fletcher, Bruce.
Title: The Rockdoctor Soldier.
Description: Turnstream 2020 1st edition. 206pp softcover. 8vo 0.3kg Mint copy ex publisher. Coming of age in the 1970s, a time of compulsory military service in South Africa, Antonius is recruited to bring his geology skills to bear in a special forces unit. This draws him into the SWA border war and the Angolan war of Independance. As his father warned him "My son, you were carefully selected. Once the army picks you out from the herd they don't easily let you hide among the masses again", Captain Caley has drawn him into the part of the army that actually gets shot at by the enemy and the course of his personal life and his geology career are forever changed.

Keywords: south southern africa african fiction geology south west africa namibia angola