Book description
Bursting with life and bawdy humour, National Serviceman Brigg is now
a Regular Army sergeant defending the Empire in the beds and bars of
Hong Kong.
Peace-time diversions include sensual fireworks with a pair of
delicious Chinese twins and a tender, erotic affair with the lonely
wife of an American serviceman.
Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a
sailor who was lost of sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is
evoked in This Time Next Week published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a
reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide
acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has
achieved international sales of over two million copies. His next novel,
Dover Beach
, will be published by William Heinemann in November 2005.
