Biggles Goes Home"We've just heard that a very good friend of ours is somewhere in the jungle of Garhwal, sick, and we'd like to have him brought here." "Presumably by me?" "Of course." "Where exactly is he?" "I don't know." That was the mission that brought Biggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie in the air police Gadfly amphibian to the north east frontier of India to rescue a wealthy Chinese fugitive from the communists.

even if he wanted to

who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station

the Church Knights and their witchfinder would be hot on his heels while his burgeoning power threatesn to tear him apart from within

Her grandmother may be dead

In the floating city of Sanctaphrax

And for some

'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday

Where is a man to hide his bones when he is yet alive

Its striking red

There had been portents famine

As he's drawn deeper into the tangled web of the past

the very soil