Nevil Shute - So Disdained

Nevil Shute's second novel joins a romantic theme to a masterly story of adventure in the air during the uneasy peace between the wars.

Peter Moran, agent to Lord Arner, stops his car one rain-swept night on the Sussex Downs to give an unwanted lift. His passenger turns out to be Maurice Lenden, an old war-time comrade, who has just crash-landed a high-speed French bomber . . .

Caught up in the ploys of espionage, Moran finds himself trapped between two loyalties as treason and intrigue lead him to a desperate chase across Europe.