Blood Worth Bottling

"Any Australian will tell you that they value and defend the ANZAC legend, but any Australian will tell you they treasure the Aussie digger."

Turlough 'Tom' MacKenna is a rough country boy, raised by his father on the band scales of rural South Australia.

Darragh 'Dan' MacKenna is a sophisticated city boy, raised by his mother in the fast moving city of Melbourne.

Unknown to each other except by the contact of a few thrown punches, both are on their way to Papua New Guinea as Australian Choco soldiers.

As polar opposites Dan and Tom are sure they would never get along but after being captured by the Japanese, they prove that just like the diggers before them, to save their lives mateship, courage, tenacity and maybe a little humour is going to be the only thing keeping them alive.

While lost in a jungle so far from home, the two Irish-Australians will find out a lot more about each other than they thought.