Retailer Secret Pilot by George E Rochester

This rare first edition copy of "Secret Pilot" by George E. Rochester was published by Epworth Press in 1954.

Details:
Original green cloth with black spine lettering, frontispiece and 156 pp. In good condition with no foxing, and minimal browning. Dust-jacket in good condition with some shelf wear at edges.


The Story:
This is the sequel to Black Wing and is about Volka, a young Royal Air Force cadet hero, who has an atomic powered flying suit. Once more there is a dangerous mission for him to undertake, this time under the direction of the Chief of Air Intelligence. A famous scientist, who has been engaged in top-secret work connected with the development of atomic energy, has mysteriously disappeared and is thought to have been kidnapped by a foreign power wishing to gain the knowledge which retailer only he possesses. Volka's search for the scientist leads him, at high speed, from one great hazard to another.


The Author:
UK author, mostly of fiction for boys under his own and several other names, including John Beresford, Frank Chaltam, Barton Furse, Jeffrey Gaunt, Eric Roche and Hamilton Smith. George E Rochester was a contemporary of author W E Johns, well known in the 1930s for his flying stories, often SF-themed.