The Fighting Man
It was a fight he could not win, but could not afford to lose. Thrown out of the SAS for insubordination, Gord Brown now lives in disillusioned exile on a failing salmon farm in the Scottish highlands. Yet to the three Guatemalan Indians who track him down, he represents the last hope of freedom. They have come to recruit a fighting man to lead an uprising against the brutal military dictatorship which is killing their people. Gord flies with them to Cuba, then on with a small band of men to a rough landing strip in the rain forest of Guatemala. As the ragged army marches through the jungle and across the high mountains towards Guatemala City, a hopeless dream becomes a burning reality. But the forces pitted against them are formidable."It is time for Gerald Seymour to be recognized as ranking up there with Graham Greene" New York Times"Moving and gripping. Seymour's characters are all beatifully drawn. The dialogue is so real you can hear it and the plot is as tight as a drum.
