Farewell to the King

In the midst of war, one man vanished into the jungle, and emerged as king.

A Conradian meditation on colonialism, civilization, and the corrupting allure of power, set in a WWII jungle where an American deserter becomes a god-king to an indigenous tribe.

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.