Publisher's Synopsis
Not having found quite enough excitement in the Merchant Navy which he joined at the age of 16 and in subsequently soldiering in Korea during his National Service years, Derek Franklin decided to sample the African 'bush' - whose delights were not confined to rhino, buffalo and a giant rock python. For Assistant-Inspector Franklin of the Kenya Police was now involved in the very real dangers of fighting both Somali bandits and Mau Mau guerrillas throughout Kenya. As a colonial police officer working in security force operations prior to and after Kenya's independence, the author not only tells of armed combat in the bush: there are stories of technical operations in Nairobi; of the battle of wits - while later serving as a Special Branch officer - against the South African Intelligence Services in Lesotho and Botswana; of the Queen Mother's visit to 'Treetops'; of George and Joy Adamson; and of the 'characters' of British Colonial Africa, not least the members of the Royal Wajir Yacht Club, actually located several hundred miles from the Indian Ocean.
