COME BREAK A SPEAR

BEN AND JOSIYA have come to their look-out post in the Rhodesian low-veldt by separate roads, arrived at manhood by paths which have led from the golden years of their boyhood when they hunted together, to the war in which they have found themselves members of the same PATU stick (Police Anti-Terrorist Unit). They have since worked together, for four years, and now they hunt men . . . Somewhere a poison has seeped into the land .
When the enemy show, they will walk into action — and after that? No; think only of today and tomorrow, not the future. .. Men at war cannot think of the future.
And then there is this thing with Nick. Ben and Nick had encouraged each other’s amorous adventures from the days when they were at school together, to their indiscriminate pleasuring of liberated ladies from the Copper- belt to Copenhagen. There were no problems until Nick married and his new wife met Ben . . .