Book - Our Man in Malaya.

I first came across Force 136 during my first stay in Singapore. The book I found then was very thin and covered the basics of the operation. Force 136 was a behind the lines intelligence gathering outfit operated from India during the Japanese occupation of the Malayan peninsular. This book by Margret Shennan fleshes out detail, and more interestingly in some ways, the human aspect of being that man in Malaya. For me the relationship between Chin Peng and John Davis gives hope to the rest of us. Two men divided by Politics and Culture but bonded by Respect for each other. Respect wins.