about the author

Rod was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1958, the youngest of five children. After a seven-year stint in the Australian Army as an officer in the Royal Australian Engineers including two years with Commandos, he entered private enterprise. After his two children left home, he and his wife realised a lifelong dream and undertook a lifestyle and career change. Now living in country Victoria, Rod has begun to write and establish himself as an author. His first book, The Missionary’s Son, was published by Austin Macauley in 2016.

about the book

Growing up in a devout, middle-class English family in China during the Sino–Japanese war leaves its mark on Bill and sets in place a series of events that leads him to join the war effort as a teenager, go down the coal mines of Wales and to eventually migrate to Australia to start afresh. But Bill is tortured by his past. A story set against the backdrop of war, the growth of a nation, the betrayal of a father and the influence of good friends, Bill traverses adulthood as a flawed man. With the support of his loving Welsh wife, Myfanwy, and the influence of his Chinese friends, Bill is forced to face his fears by revisiting the place of his childhood, Shanghai, China. Here, he eventually faces his demons and farewells a good friend, who leaves him with a symbol of peace and strength, his Chinese broadsword.R. G. Harmon has also written The Missionary’s Son and The Prequel to The Broadsword and the Englishman.

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