The Chequer Board: Nevil ShuteJohn 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