Two Hours to Darkness

About the Author

Antony Trew has lived much of his life at sea. He was born in Pretoria, Transvaal, in 1906, and shipped out on the Union-Castle line when he was fifteen, later becoming a sublieutenant in the South African Naval Service. At twenty-four, he decided to live ashore in Johannesburg, and tried his hand at a wide variety of jobs until in 1932 he went to work for the Automobile Association of South Africa, of which he has been Secretary-General since 1946.

During World War II he went back to the Navy as senior officer of the 22nd Anti-Submarine Group, Mediterranean Fleet. He was transferred, in 1943, to the Royal Navy and sent to Staff College at Greenwich, England. For the rest of the war, he was commanding officer of HMS Walker, a destroyer principally employed on convoy-escort duty in northern waters. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

Since he returned to South Africa, Mr. Trew has lived in the country outside Johannesburg. He began writing at night as a cure for insomnia. Two Hours to Darkness is his first novel.