November, 1962. Lieutenant Commander Ed Douglas has only six months of his seven years' national service left to serve when suddenly he is whisked from his position manning the Royal Navy Marines Careers office and into an exciting new operation: Operation Orangutan. Together with a group of Army Royal Marines and Royal Navy, and an eccentric civilian interpreter and guide, Poopalu Negri, Ed must enter the depths of the Malaysian jungle and try to capture a console panel from the Russians and face his most dangerous mission yet.