The Kokoda Connection — Leslie Wilkie

The discovery of an old man lying bleeding and unconscious on his doorstep sends Ray Ward on a journey across the world. A chance encounter on a flight to New Zealand with a freelance journalist, Jan Sinclair, leads to Ray and her joining forces in a search into the old man's background. Together they unravel a wartime mystery involving the survivors of a shipwreck and escapees from the Japanese.