The Dust on the Godown Floor

About the Book

It is 1973 in Bangkok, Thailand, and Bill Thomas is a young expatriate working for WorldMedal Inc. while enjoying occasional romantic trysts with local women anxious to please. But when a co-worker tells him he has received an anonymous warning that the company is in danger of receiving a shipment of ilmenite from Singapore instead of tin ore, Bill’s life is suddenly upended. Bill and the co-worker have no idea of the identity of the caller—only that he had an accent from Thailand’s tin mining region. After Bill informs an American executive of the developments, he heads for Singapore where a chain of events begins to unfold and truths become evident. As Bill soon finds himself in the midst of a brutal and unforgiving milieu, he must confront challenges he never imagined and a moral dilemma with an outcome that will haunt him for the remainder of his life. The Dust on the Godown Floor is the suspenseful tale of a young expatriate’s quest to identify and expose the perpetrators behind an audacious, lucrative minerals heist in 1970s Asia.

About the Author

Jocelyn Waller worked in Malaysia and Thailand while engaged in the minerals and metals business. In 1976, he became seriously ill and, while recovering, wrote Dust on the Godown Floor. The manuscript then sat in a drawer untouched until nearly a half-century later. Now retired, Jocelyn lives in a Cambridgeshire village with his partner of thirty-two years.