Darkness falls over the Malayan jungle in early 1942 as Imperial Japan's forces sweep through Southeast Asia. A shadowy figure emerges from the treeline. Making a strange bird call sound, he carefully positions a stick of bamboo against a Japanese-controlled railway bridge. As the mysterious man disappears, the homemade gelignite inside the bamboo explodes in a deafening blast, sending the bridge crashing into the river below.
In the past two weeks, these attacks have claimed hundreds of lives and wreaked havoc on infrastructure. The Japanese command is convinced they face a force of 200 battle-hardened commandos.
In the hostile depths of the rainforest, British naturalist and former schoolteacher turned guerrilla wildman Captain Freddie Spencer Chapman and his small band of fighters will now face the wrath of 2,000 Imperial soldiers - if the jungle itself doesn’t get them first…