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The Timor Man is a work of historical fiction.

Originally, this story was released with the title The Tim-Tim Man , however, out of respect to the East Timorese people I have re-titled the book.

Fact and fiction are often held to be difficult bedfellows. In this novel, I have attempted to weave both into a narrative that general readers will enjoy, readers who have not had the benefit of witnessing at first-hand the incredible changes that have occurred in Asia over the last few decades.

Perhaps some of the descriptions of events and military hardware could be challenged, but for the greater part, the novel is supported by what I believe to be a solid foundation of fact.

In 1965 and 1966, during the time which many of us later understood as the ‘Year of Living Dangerously ’, almost half a million people died in one of the worst blood lettings since the Jewish Holocaust.

Later, between the years of 1975 and 1990, almost a quarter of a million East Timorese were killed by Indonesian soldiers. More died, in fact, than were lost in the terrible wars in what are now known as the Former Yugoslavian Republics.

Although this story was not written with a political purpose, I hope it will reach your heart and appeal to your soul. As our world enters the twenty-first Century, we still go about killing each other more than ever before. Human nature doesn’t seem to change.

Only the historical facts do.

Kerry B.Collison,

Kompong Som