About the Book

In Jakarta, Sam Rivers is all set to marry his Indonesian love, Fon. But life takes an odd turn when, against her advice, he goes into business with Pak Suryono to smuggle a semi-human creature from the archipelago to Australia.

Madness? Yes, but typical of a white man. His behaviour in Kenukecil is no surprise to its people, nor are his peculiar companions – including disgraced returnee Pak Wim and the flame-haired, husband-seeking Dr Aletheia Groeber, bestselling American author of anthropology tome Fuck the Savages. All of which helps explain the island’s popular prayer: ‘May both God and the ancestors protect us, for here comes another one.’
While Sam succumbs to malarial fevers his strange cargo escapes to rampage among the local young women, much to their delight. With angry fathers on the hunt, demanding blood, can Sam find the short man before it’s too late?

About the Author

WILL BUCKINGHAM studied Fine Arts before running away to Indonesia to research sculpture in the Spice Islands. It was there that he developed his love of the written word, bashing out stories on an old typewriter as rain pounded on the tin roof. He also has a PhD in philosophy.

Will now lives in Birmingham where he is writing his second novel and teaching philosophy.