The samurai kites. William Warnock. Sphere Books Limited. 1981.

The samurai kites. William Warnock. Sphere Books Limited. 1981.When two Australian nurses, Mae Winters and Sally Brandeis, crash-land after a mercy mission in the New Guinea jungle, they are the only survivors.And as they wait for rescue, their would-be liberators are massacred by a Japanese patrol, leaving them in the ruthless hands of the modern Samurai, Lieutenant Oshima, and his sadistic Sergeant Nagato. So begins a long march to the Japanese encampment through dangerous land where the threat of violent death lurks behind each leat. And as pity for the two women vanquishes the code of blood. Their captors are at deadly odds with each other in the torridheat. So when, in the horror of the jungle, the nurses reach freedom, their captors kill and are killed in a ghastly struggle. THE SAMURAI KITES is a devastating war novel by a major new writing talent.