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ADVENTURE IN THE KING'S NAVEEI
A TOPICAL MEDITERRANEAN YARN
Vice-Admiral C. V. Usborne, in his'
"Malta Fever" (Hodder and Stougliton.
London) starts off with the advantage of.
knowing his background perfectly. Against ]
tliis he has spun a rattling good yarn. |
quick-moving in action, and with thrills j
in plenty, of spies and diplomatic intrigue, j
with a pleasant love interest to season!
things along. Of its type it is as good!
a yarn as you could expect to find in a!
week's march through the circulating;
libraries and bookshops. ]
Vice-Admiral Usbornc's background is!
Malta-those of you who know the island;
in memory of a few hours' stop on thei
voyage out or home will feel your pulses;
quicken and a wave of "Malta fever" sweep j
over you at his excellent pictures-and the!
British Fleet flagship, Anson. His story j
is of the loss-by Commander Brian i
Caldered. the Anson's Staff Officer for
Intelligence and Operations-of War Plan
XP21, the plan of operations against Kan
davia, in the event of war. at a moment
when war seems imminent.
In an endeavour to recover the plan,
which he believes to have been stolen j
and transported by plane to Kandavia,
Brian sets off in pursuit by air in a British j
Air Force machine, to make a forced i
landing on a Kandavian aerodrome, and j
there be captured as a spy. i
He does spy. and discovers that Kan-'
davia has secret aeroplanes made of a
bullet-proof metal, and by getting his in
formation back to Malta enables Britain
to produce bullets capable of piercing the
metal-and staving off war. i
How he is cleared of the charge of hav
ing sold the War Plan to Kandavia by
(he investigations of the girl who loves
him-Anthea Rede, the admiral's niece
and how the real traitor is disclosed,
jis worth reading the book to find out for
yourself.
I This is a thoroughly entertaining book,
i in which the jig-saws dovetail nicely, and
{it is, as the publishers declare, "A real
isailor's yarn."
' The following new novels and rcorints have
I been received:-"Murder on the Tropic." bjr
I Todd Downing (London: Methuen and Co.*:
I "Blue Silver," by Victor Bridges (London:
; Hodder and Stoughtom: "Murder Train." bv
| Gavin Holt (Liottdon: Hodder and Sloughtom:
i "Passionate Follies." by Alice Hegan Rice
i and Cale Young Rice (London: Hodder and
? StouvlitonV
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