Eben Beukes
When The Moon Was Blood12BLURB - WHEN THE MOON WAS BLOOD More than a mile away and turning, a silveryshadow momentarily etched against the risingsun, the Zero was readying for a return, the beatof its radial engine drumming across the water asit prepared for another strafing run. And with alloptions seemingly exhausted Dawber knew thatthis time there would be no escaping the certaindeath spitting from its wing mounted machineguns... The Pacific. August 1942. As a Special Forces'Z' team desperately try to escape a Japaneseambush and reach the relative safety of MilneBay, Papua New Guinea, a drama of a differentkind is playing out at the Australian Army’smilitary HQ in Townsville. A well placed spy isfeeding vital information to the enemyjeopardising every mission behind enemy lines asthe threatened invasion of Australia looms large. As part of a desperate attempt to put themarauding Imperial Japanese Forces on thewrong track and hopefully in the process unmaskthe traitor known as The Bird, Mick Dawber andhis small team of irregulars are sent back into theimpenetrable jungle on one last mission and thistime the stakes are higher than ever before. For Mick has been lied to, set up, by his ownside in the dirtiest game of all. But then, when it comes to playing dirty, Mick, Preacher and Facewrote the book. Failure was not an option. Not when revengewas the name of the game.