Book description
North Africa, 1942. Dust, heat, thirst, flies. Nothing here to harm but
the sand, the enemy and yourself. A good clean fight, for those who like
that sort of thing, and some do. From an advanced landing field,
striking hard and escaping fast, our old friends from Fanny Barton's
Hornet Squadron (Piece of Cake) play Russian roulette, flying their
clapped-out Tomahawks on ground-strafing forays. On the ground, the men
of Captain Lampard's S. A.S. patrol drive hundreds of miles behind enemy
lines to plant bombs on German aircraft. This is the story of the desert
war waged by the men of the R. A.F. and S. A.S. versus the Luftwaffe and
the Afrika Korps, a war of no glamour and few heroes in a setting often
more lethal than the enemy. A follow up to Piece of Cake, A Good Clean
Fight brings the desert war to life in Robinson's inimitable style. And
as ever when military intelligence is involved, intrigue and idiocy go
hand in hand. 'Nobody writes about the war quite like Derek Robinson.
He has a way of carrying you along with the excitement of it all before
suddenly disposing of a character with a casual, laconic ruthlessness
that is shockingly realistic' Mike Petty, Independent. Derek Robinson,
the son of a policeman, read history at Cambridge before working in
advertising in London and New York. His novel Goshawk Squadron was
shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1973.
