A nobleman’s errant son is dispatched to the South seas to be blooded. A tale of stumbling through intrigue, hunger, pangs of love-lust, deceit, loneliness, kidnap and hunger on his path to discovering common sense. Coast-watching on Guadalcanal when the Japanese invade, he discovers the horrors of what war does to man on the one hand—and what unlikely friendships can be forged on the other.A front stalls view of the legendary naval battles on Guadalcanal, 1942.