- Hardcover: 250 pages
- Publisher: London: Newnes, 1962; 1st edition (1962)
- Language English
- ASIN: B0019Y03SK
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,608,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A relatively late entry to the Lone Pine canon, and quite a bad one to start reading from, if, however you are a confirmed fan, this book is a revelation.
Compared with other young thriller protagonists, e.g, The Famous Five or the Three Investigators, the Lone Piners are unusual in that over time they do actually grow up. It does however take them some time! In their earliest adventures the Mortons are evacuees, in this one their enemy is the son of a German spy, born during the war, yet he and they are the same age.
Rightly ignoring this in a glaring suspension of disbelief, we find the Lone Pine gang growing up fast in this story: passionate kissing, lifelong promises of love, girlfriend-beating (shame on you David!) and leiderhosen all feature, as well as a scene not only outside of Shropshire but out of England!!!Unprecedented!
As usual our heroes triumph by sticking to their 1940s values, whatever their supposed ages, and embarrassing the villains into better behaviour.
I really don't know what today's kids would make of the Lone Piners, even in the '70's when I read these stories they were squarer than double geometry, but Saville's unforced characterisations and love of his chosen setting really shines through.
They don't write 'em like this anymore. Blame the invention of irony circa 1978.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In this, the 14th Lone Pine adventure, the Lone Piners become involved in the search for a hidden cache of banknotes that were hidden in the Shropshire Hills during WW2. The charming John Smith, (who is not all he seems) becomes trapped in an underground mine with Peter and David in the search for the treasure. Specially brilliant as this is the book where David and Peter first realise what they mean to each other and share their their first kiss!!
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