Description
To a meeting of the War Cabinet in July 1942 the Prime Minister announces that he has received the most urgent request for vital supplies of radar valves both from the Commander-in-Chief in North Africa and from the O.C. Home Forces. Existing stocks, however, will only permit of one demand being fulfilled, and It is essential that the enemy should not have the slightest inkling either of this shortage or of their ultimate disposal.
Thus is born the Train that is to ensure the safe distribution, and thus is the meticulous author presented with the opportunity to formulate what is, even for him, a masterpiece of detailed planning that makes for wholly engrossing reading,
But somewhere there is a leakage of these secret orders, and once again Britain has incalculable debts to pay, first to her proverbial good fortune, and later to the genius of Inspector French, whose first incursion into the realms of international espionage proves him to be, as staunch and loyal a patriot as he is painstaking and astute as a detective, his ultimate triumph warranting him a well-deserved place in the next Honours List.
