Playwhites

By Rodney Parker

Lester Liddle is an inner city youth who decides to escape his fifties slum surroundings and a bullying step father by joining the Royal Air Force, the RAF. His tough upbringing clashes with the rigorous Boy training where discipline was based on character building through rough bullying tactics, which he finds hard to accept. He is saved from desertion by Charles, a young educated black African who as an amateur boxer protects him from the camp bully while experiencing his own racist problems. After training he is posted to an RAF camp in North Wales where he joins the RAF Mountain Rescue team as a part-time member. Unfortunately, a call-out for a serious aircraft crash in the mountains introduces him to the real reason the team exists. He decides to leave and meets up with a local girl, Glenda, who he marries and takes with him to a posting in post war Germany. Glenda is very Welsh and very jealous and finds life as a service wife incompatible with her upbringing in a small incestuous town, so returns back home. Lester's time in the RAF is coming to an end and he cajoles Glenda to emigrate to Southern Africa, but again she finds it difficult to accept the free and easy behaviour of the expat community. They escape to apartheid free but war torn Rhodesia where the story continues in my second book in the trilogy, Playwhites.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BP9S3BSX
• ISBN13: 9798354325917
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"