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The Mouse That Saved the West

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The Amazon blurb under this book is entirely wrong: this is not a book about ballooning at all, and the hot air in it derives solely from the fact that it's a novel about politics. The book dates from 1981, but seems to look back to the mid-seventies gas crunch for its motif. But it's a novel, one from the prolific pen of Leonard Wibberly, and falling into the series spun from his most popular, famous, and enticing work, The Mouse That Roared.The Mouse That Roared There are at least two other engaging titles in the series, both of which I've given five stars, no question: The Mouse on the Moon,The Mouse on the Moon and The Mouse on Wall StreetThe Mouse on Wall Street. Leonard's acumen, shown to such sparkling effect in these works, two of which were made into popular movies,The Mouse That Roared, and The Mouse on the Moon here briefly flares and fizzles out.

The Mouse of the title is the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a sovereign nation situated in the French/ Swiss Alps. It's not necessary to have read the former books to understand this one, although previous adventures are referred to throughout it, but it certainly is a delightful pleasure awaiting readers new to the denizens and designs of the Duchy. If the author here, along with the characters in the book, runs out of gas, it merely makes us, like them, wish to return to happier times and a full head of steam: lucky for readers, the happy adventure awaits of The Mouse That Roared.