Book description
'You're out last hope, Bigglesworth,' said the Air Commodore, with
something like despair in his voice.
The war supply route between Calcutta and China is a vital one but
something is attacking the planes that fly it. Again and again pilots
set off, only to disappear somewhere along the line, never to be seen
again. When Biggles and his team are called in to investigatem, flying
the route is close to a suicide mission . . .
Captain W. E. Johns was born in Hertfordshire in 1893. He flew with
the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and made a daring escape
from a German prison camp in 1918. Between the wars he edited Flying and
Popular Flying and became a writer for the Ministry of Defence. The
First Biggles story, Biggles the Camels are Coming was published in
1932, and W. E. Johns went on to write a staggering102 Biggles titles
before his death in 1968.
