In volume II of his autobiography Dr. Sarath Amunugama covers the period 1977 to 1990 aptly sub titled “The JRJ Years”. He covers a momentous period in the nation’s history and in his own career: JRJ’s landslide victory in 1977 and the 2nd Republican constitution which established the executive presidency, his appointment as the youngest Permanent Secretary and his enduring contributions to the development of broadcasting and TV and tourism including the investments by international hotel chains, the open economy which has endured, the emasculation of the opposition and the rise of Tamil militancy in the wider context of the vicissitudes in Indo-Lankan relations, and the violence unleashed by the JVP. He takes us on his foreign sojourns including those as an international civil servant with perceptive references to world leaders he interacted with and ends with his return home.