Amongst the Dead

Failed Shakespearean actor and would-be private investigator Will Power's unique detective skills are, once again, in demand. The Japanese army is rampaging through the islands of the South Pacific and Australia's front line of defence is a top-secret, crack division of men embedded deep in the tropical wilderness of northern Australia. But one of this elite corps is a murderer, preying on his comrades, one by one. With a case too sensitive to be trusted to the police, military intelligence turn to William Power. Power goes into deep cover, posing as a cheap, vaudeville entertainer on tour to relieve the troops. A brilliant, comic pastiche of the classic ripping yarn.