You can't cut his hand off, Sir, he's our conjuror and a bloody brilliant one too!

IN THE Chungkai prisoner of war camp in a sweltering Thai jungle, Fergus 'Gunner' Anckorn pulled off his greatest ever trick. An egg was the food of fantasy for the skeletal soldiers interned there 68 years ago, who were used to enduring 14 hours of hard labour every day on just a few handfuls of rice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]