Their Rainbow Had Black Edges is a 1943 crime thriller novel by English writer Gerald Butler.

But on the long, dragging journey back, the fires burn again inside him, and he risks a desperate break away from his armed escort.

"Dark Rainbow," is a bitter and powerful tale, but service-men will understand it, and the author has made no attempt to spare the reader the disastrous effect of likable, patriotic young Rannington's long confinement in various army camps.

IT is hard to accept the notion that this is a superior enough example of current English writing to have been worth importing.

Nevertheless, the chase over the now familiar English countryside and in blacked-out railway compartments is a professional piece of work, and the author's friendly attitude toward his caddish hero may be the start of a postwar trend.