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Mark Stratton, boxer, rugby player and Olympic pentathlete, has been working in Intelligence at the Air Ministry for three months when a man is incinerated in a car outside his office.
The dead man, it turns out, was a scientist working on materials for high speed aircraft - and he had just discovered a groundbreaking, new formula. A formula that many people would kill to get their hands on.
Mark Stratton is given the job of finding out. When his friend and colleague Don Brown is also killed in curious circumstances, Stratton's desire to bring the perpetrators to justice is strengthened. Meanwhile, a sinister group known as the Hellions is meeting to discuss its business interests.
Stratton investigates, working alongside the highly-esteemed, but strangely twitchy, 'Major' Eddie Kyle, and the pair are soon drawn into a sometimes glamorous but always sinister underworld. With Stratton's girlfriend also going missing, the need to solve this particular case becomes even more acute.
Richard Townshend Bickers is the author of many successful flying novels of the Second World War such as Dawn Patrol and Battle Climb. Born in India and educated at St Paul's he volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of war and served as a regular officer until 1957. He has also written several radio plays and features as well as articles and short stories.
The dead man, it turns out, was a scientist working on materials for high speed aircraft - and he had just discovered a groundbreaking, new formula. A formula that many people would kill to get their hands on.
Mark Stratton is given the job of finding out. When his friend and colleague Don Brown is also killed in curious circumstances, Stratton's desire to bring the perpetrators to justice is strengthened. Meanwhile, a sinister group known as the Hellions is meeting to discuss its business interests.
Stratton investigates, working alongside the highly-esteemed, but strangely twitchy, 'Major' Eddie Kyle, and the pair are soon drawn into a sometimes glamorous but always sinister underworld. With Stratton's girlfriend also going missing, the need to solve this particular case becomes even more acute.
Richard Townshend Bickers is the author of many successful flying novels of the Second World War such as Dawn Patrol and Battle Climb. Born in India and educated at St Paul's he volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of war and served as a regular officer until 1957. He has also written several radio plays and features as well as articles and short stories.
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