Jack McNulty is a temporary gentleman ? an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in , Jack?s writing his life story. A lifetime of war and travel ? as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer ? has brought him to this point. But the memory weighing heaviest on his heart is that of beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage.,
