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Monkeys in the dark

Alexandra Wheatfield, a young journalist, has come to work in the Australian Embassy in Djakarta at a time of chaotic change: the coup of 1965 has been crushed, but the Indonesian Army has not yet overthrown the revered President Sukarno. Sukarno has warned that without him the people will bring anarchy upon themselves, like 'monkeys in the dark'. The privileged Australian diplomats view this scene with benign contempt. The task entrusted to security officer Frank Greaves and his protégé, Anthony Sinclair, is to find new sources of information and power in the crumbling and corrupt city. But A

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