The Exposed

This is a love story between a British soldier and a young Japanese girl, set in Japan shortly after World War II when the Korean War was at its height. It is an unconventional story, unlike anything that has preceded it; a love affair between two very different characters and an affair which no one could have anticipated.
The English hero is an idle, self-seeking national serviceman looking for a cushy time, and the heroine is a very beautiful young Japanese girl who was caught in the dreaded Black Rain at the time of the Hiroshima A-Bomb, and therefore liable to suffer the horrendous outcome of radiation poisoning.
As the story unfolds their love rapidly develops despite opposition from the authorities, especially the unit’s Padre, known to everyone as Pissy Muldoon: an ex-prisoner of war who worked on the River Kwai and had good reason to hate all Japanese.
The story develops to such a degree that fraternization between the British and the Japanese spreads to all ranks in the Headquarters on the Inland Sea, where the story is set. Even Pissy Muldoon is eventually won over.
The ending is both sad and happy, which has led Trevor Hunt (author of Ibiza Shrots) to describe it as, “A work of genius. The best happy/sad novel I have ever read.”