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Christine Helliwell is a New Zealand-born anthropologist, author and academic, currently Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. She has been carrying out research on Borneo's indigenous Dayak peoples - including living with them in their communities for months at a time - for almost forty years, and has written widely on Dayak social and cultural life. Christine lives in Canberra. Her book Semut - on the most important of the Borneo 'Z' operations - took her almost four years to write. Christine Helliwell is a New Zealand-born anthropologist, author and academic, currently Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. She has been carrying out research on Borneo's indigenous Dayak peoples - including living with them in their communities for months at a time - for almost forty years, and has written widely on Dayak social and cultural life. Christine lives in Canberra. Her book Semut - on the most important of the Borneo 'Z' operations - took her almost four years to write. Dorje Swallow is an Australia stage, screen and voice actor. He can be seen in the films The Tail Job and Spin Out. On the small screen he has featured in Wonderland, Home and Away, City Homicide and Sea Patrol. He has performed for many different theatre companies across Australia and has also written and directed two short films. Recently Dorje has established himself as one of the premier voiceover actors in Australia, voicing for brands, TV channels and documentaries.
'The incredible, little-known story of Australia's top secret 'Z' operations deep inside Japanese lines in Sarawak in 1945 ... A superb read, brilliantly researched, written in prose as sharp as a machete.' -- Paul Ham
