by Robert Connolly
East Timor, 1975: five Western journalists disappear while Indonesia prepares to invade the former Portuguese colony. A short time later, their colleague Roger East is invited by José Ramos-Horta to East Timor to help concentrate the world’s attention on the story of his country and highlight the fate of the missing journalists. As East's determination to uncover the truth about the Balibo Five grows, the threat of invasion intensifies and an unlikely friendship develops between the last foreign correspondent in East Timor and the man who will become President. A political thriller dedicated to a man who discovered crimes that had been covered up for over thirty years.