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In 1938 Malaya, Japanese intelligence officers and pro-Independence Indians conspire to test their suspicions about British intelligence officer Philip Rance by attempting to burgle his office. The plot is, foiled by Rance's teenage son, Jason, who must move to England, to escape revenge.
Singapore and Malaya fall to the Japanese and captured Indian POWs are, enlisted in the anti-British 'Indian National Army' under Subhas Chandra Bose. All four...
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After years of jungle service, Jason Rance, a maverick Chinese-speaking British major of Gurkhas has one final chance of qualifying for promotion to lieutenant colonel. During a covert operation on the Thai Malayan border, Rance meets a Chinese schoolboy friend from jungle-operation days and together they must pit Malaya’s orange sail, or indigenous people, against Chin Peng and the Malayan Communists, now hiding in south Thailand, trying to rescue...
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Skinny Chinese taxi-girls dance with off-duty British military personnel at the Yam Yam nightclub to the strains of 'Rose, Rose, I love you' and 'Terang Bulan'. Attractively dressed in their long, tight-fitting, slit-sided cheongsams, the girls also listen out for loose talk, which they feed back to their Communist handlers. It is 1950s Malaya and the country is in the throes of the Malayan Emergency. As the British do battle with Communist terrorists...
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