Black Sun, Red Moon Series (Books 1-2) by Rory Marron
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Overview: ‘Rory Marron’ is an unrepentant ‘flags and gun smoke’ historian. He was born in Lancashire, England. Rory’s doctoral thesis examined British foreign policy in Southeast Asia after the Japanese surrender. He has lived in Japan, working in the international sales section of a major Japanese company in Tokyo. His interests include Iyengar yoga, kendo and tai-chi. Black Sun, Red Moon: A Novel of Java and Merdeka Rising are his first works of fiction.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Black Sun, Red Moon
Drama and Tragedy during the Indonesian Revolution…. ‘An ambitious, unconventional, compelling saga of men at war, captivity, forced prostitution, murder, political dirty tricks and mob terror in Japanese-occupied and revolutionary Indonesia. Rory Marron’s Black Sun, Red Moon gives us an almost tangible glimpse of the chaos that was Java in 1945-46. His writing, infused with imaginative speculation, is sweeping, poignant, passionate and unflinching.’ (Publishers Catalogue.
Japan’s sudden surrender ends the Second World War but triggers the Indonesian declaration of independence from the Netherlands, catching the returning Dutch and ‘Southeast Asia’s peacekeepers’, Britain, by surprise. In a chaotic, mistrustful peace Lord Mountbatten orders the Japanese to defend the white colonial order. Recent foes have no choice but to become allies…of a kind. In greatest peril are 80,000 European women and children interned by the Japanese. These defenceless civilians, abandoned and half-starved, some of them former sex slaves, become hostages to the future of a free Indonesia.
As their former gaolers become their guardians, protecting them from hostile mobs, hatreds and prejudices are hastily re-examined. British, Gurkha and Indian troops, veterans of the long Burma campaign arrive in Java expecting a warm welcome from grateful civilians and easy duties. Very soon their orders are rewritten, their mission and motives questioned, as they face determined, frequently suicidal opposition. In the mayhem of siege and slaughter, once sworn enemies stand shoulder to shoulder against a murderous human tide. Yet when loyalties are questioned fragile, new bonds are threatened and Japanese must face Japanese in a private, deadly, finale.
Merdeka Rising
JAVA, 1945: In the uneasy aftermath of war, once bitter enemies must stand as allies against the rage and terror of revolution.
As Indonesia erupts in violent revolution, thousands of Europeans interned by the Japanese become hostages to fortune. Their only hope is a tiny force of peacekeepers—British, Indian, Gurkha and surrendered Japanese—who stand against the murderous hordes. New loyalties are tested while old scores are settled in blood amidst mass, spine-chilling roars of ‘Merdeka!’ (Freedom!).
‘An ambitious, unconventional, compelling saga of men at war, captivity, forced prostitution, murder, political dirty tricks and mob terror in Japanese-occupied and revolutionary Indonesia. Rory Marron’s BLACK SUN, RED MOON and MERDEKA RISING gives us an almost tangible glimpse of the chaos that was Java in 1945-46. His writing, infused with imaginative speculation, is sweeping, poignant, passionate and unflinching.’ (Publishers Catalogue.)
Japan’s sudden surrender in August 1945 ends World War II but triggers the Indonesian declaration of independence from the Netherlands. In a chaotic, mistrustful peace Lord Mountbatten orders the Japanese to defend the white colonial order. Recent foes have no choice but to become allies…of a kind. In the mayhem of siege and slaughter, once sworn enemies stand shoulder to shoulder against a murderous human tide. Yet when loyalties are questioned fragile, new bonds are threatened and Japanese must face Japanese in a private, deadly, finale.
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