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Algy turned a trifle pale and shook his head. 'For God's sake be careful,' he whispered tersely. 'They'll shoot you like a dog if they spot what you're doing.'
While on leave Biggles is mistaken for someone else. He thinks little of it at the time, but when headquarters find out they ask him to take the place of his double and work for the Germans as a spy, while secretly reporting back to the British. It's a difficult task and there's a very high price to pay if he's spotted - his life.
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Alas for his peace of mind, here he encounters for the first time chronologically his greatest adversary, Von Stalhein. And in each chapter, Biggles finds that Von Stalhein, who seems to know far too much about British operations, has laid a cunning trap into which Biggles has fallen, and must immediately escape by fast thinking and taking advantage of every chance. The reader is therefore kept on edge as much as Biggles.
The superhumanly adept Von Stalhein has never been more adept than here, in his first bow, and Biggles' final revelation about Von Stalhein's activities in Palestine will come as a genuine shock to many readers.
Biggles' comical sidekick Algy Montgomery has evolved via the previous 6 books in the series into his annoyingly dense sidekick Algy Lacey. Major Raymond is just beginning his career in British Intelligence. Chronologically the book is an interlude in Biggles' air battles in France. It's an indespensible chapter in the Saga of Biggles, and I think you need it if you don't have it, but have any other book in the series.
For me, it is the first Biggles book I have read in, um, decades. Yet it still hold strong. Johns' writing style is as captivating and descriptive as it ever was and I defy anyone adult or child, not to get sucked into the tales of spying and flying, and in this case a scenario based very much on the real life activities of Lawrence of Arabia.
I am not a Biggles nerd. But I am a pilot (largely thanks to Johns' books a generation ago!) mostly flying vintage aircraft and I can testify W. E. Johns 'from the cockpit' descriptions are spot on. The are probably at their best in the WW1-era books he wrote based on personal experience as a WW1 pilot, and this book contains some of his best.
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