num_pages: 340
description: John Turner, a young man with a checkered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his remaining time in search of three very different men he met in the hospital during the war, each of them in trouble of some kind: a pilot whose wife had betrayed him, a young corporal charged with killing a civilian in a brawl, and a black G.I. wrongly accused of the attempted rape of a white English girl. As Turner discovers where these men have landed on the checkerboard of life, he learns about compassion, tolerance, and second chances, and overcomes his fear of death.
language: English
title: The Chequer Board
titlecomplete: The Chequer Board
characters: John Turner, Phillip Morgan, Douglas Brent, Dave Lesurier
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, World War II, Asia, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1348
places: Trenarth, Cornwall, England, Penzance, England, Myanmar
publisher: House of Stratus Ltd