num_pages: 221
description: The Enemy in the Blanket is the second novel in Anthony Burgess's Malayan Trilogy The Long Day Wanes. The novel charts the continuing adventures of Victor Crabbe, who becomes headmaster of a school in the imaginary sultanate of Dahaga (meaning thirst in Malay and identifiable with Kelantan) in the years and months leading up to Malayan independence.
language: English
title: The Enemy in the Blanket
titlecomplete: The Enemy in the Blanket
characters: Rupert Hardman, Victor Crabbe, Abdul Kadir, Fenella
genres: Fiction, Novels, Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 175
series: The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
publisher: William Heinemann Ltd