Deep Down Under

Just after the birth of his second child, Detective Inspector "Sarge" Downs of the Queensland police based in Cairns receives a mysterious parcel. In it he finds various accounts of the role his grandfather, Wilfred, played during the Second World War. Sarge had inherited his middle name from his grandfather and only seen him as a withered old man who didnt seem to be able to do much. However Sarge learns that he was very much mistaken. In his youth his grandfather had volunteered into the armed forces. Such was his talent he was deployed to assist a coastwatcher on a very small Micronesian island near the Equator. The Japanese subsequently set up a base on the island. Wilf was able to get all the islanders and the coastwatcher off the island to safely. The island would draw him back again. He came with group of commandos to investigate what the Japanese were doing there. In doing so a major incident took place that would haunt the young Wilf for the rest of...