Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In The Malayan Trilogy (Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East), he satirises the dog days of colonialism. Victor Crabbe is a well meaning, ineffectual English man in the tropics, keen to teach the Malays what the West can do for them. Through Crabbe's rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters, Burgess lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence.

Also published in London by Minerva in 1996.

Time for a tiger -- The enemy in the blanket --Beds in the East.