A Baronet's son, naïve and irresponsible, must fend for himself in the South Pacific. He survives hardship, kidnap and mugging before getting tangled up in the Japanese invasion of Guadalcanal.

A nobleman's errant son is despatched to the South seas to be blooded.

A tale of stumbling through intrigue, hunger, pangs of love-lust, deceit, loneliness, kidnap and hunger on his path to discovering common sense.

Coast-watching on Guadalcanal when the Japanese invade, he discovers the horrors of what war does to man on the one hand—and what unlikely friendships can be forged on the other.

A front stalls view of the legendary naval battles on Guadalcanal, 1942.