Scobie, a police officer in a fly-blown West African colony during the war, is above suspicion
Then, passed over for promotion, he is forced to borrow money from a Syrian trader to send his faded wife, Louise, on holiday.
In her absence he falls in love with a pathetic child widow ... and, inexorably, his conscience and his love of God lead him to disaster.
Scobie, a police officer in a fly-blown West African colony during the war, is above suspicion
Then, passed over for promotion, he is forced to borrow money from a Syrian trader to send his faded wife, Louise, on holiday.
In her absence he falls in love with a pathetic child widow ... and, inexorably, his conscience and his love of God lead him to disaster.