The Small Back Room Av Nigel Balchin

<p><b>A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War.</b><br><br>Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the ''back room boys'' of the Second World War. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggles with a drink problem at home, and politics and petty pride at work. Worse still, he fears he is not good enough for the woman he loves.<br><br>The stakes are raised when the enemy begin to drop a new type of booby-trapped bomb, causing many casualties. Only Sammy has the know-how to diffuse it - but as he comes face to face with real danger, all his old inadequacies return to haunt him.<br><br>Can he, at last, prove his worth and put his demons to rest?</p>