Review
'A master of the gripping adventure yarn' -- The Daily Telegraph
About the Author
John Harris was born in 1916. He authored the best-selling The Sea Shall Not Have Them and wrote under the pen names of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy. He was a sailor, airman, a journalist, travel courier, cartoonist and a history teacher. During the Second World War he served with two air forces and two navies. After turning to full-time writing, Harris wrote adventure stories and created a sequence of crime novels around the quirky fictional character Chief Inspector Pel. A master of war and crime fiction, his enduring fictions are versatile and entertaining.
