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78 reviewsBarry England’s powerful account of two escaped prisoners’ desperate attempt to outrun their pursuers across a dangerous and alien landscape.
"Masterful and beautifully written. Riveting and compellingly authentic. Grips you like a vice from the first page and never let you go." - Damien Lewis
Two prisoners of war make a daring escape, fleeing on foot across hostile terrain to the safety of the border. Which lies more than 400 miles away. With nothing to fall back on but their courage and a fierce determination to survive, Ansell and MacConnachie are pushed to the limits of endurance by heat, hunger and exhaustion. All the while, they are pursued on the ground by enemy soldiers and from above by a menacing black helicopter that hovers in the sky. Waiting…
"England's prose has the tough, spare elegance of steel scaffolding. His vocabulary is wide and used with arresting precision. The speed of the narrative is impeccably controlled – long slogs over the country, moments of blind panic, passages of demoralizing inactivity, hair-raising evasions, all building up to a central set-piece in a burning field... A brilliant achievement." - The Times
Barry England served as a subaltern in the Far East in the early fifties, then worked as an actor before starting a successful career as a stage and television playwright. England’s first novel, Figures in a Landscape (1968), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a film by Joseph Losey.
