Badmen; Drama

Fiction Department

[?]ies, M15 And Red Badmen; Drama [?]n The High Seas

\part from the fact that The

en, by Josephine Bell, and

e Thunder and Flame , by

zander Fullerton, are novels,

re is no point of resemblance our only two items in this nth’s fiction department. •SEPHINE BELL usually writes either detective stories or straight els. In The Alien she seems to s combined the two techniques produced a story that requires ;reat deal of delving into the dies of the principal characters a lot of thriller gimmicks. x-Polish military attaches, spies, oair mother’s helps, baddies from nd the Iron Curtain and MIS, all s a part to play. here is also a moral theme—the tion of the English to aliens Tally and to the ex-Polish attache •articular.

HE ALIEN; Geoffrey Bles. 18/9.) s is befitting of an ex-RN officer, zander Fullerton writes about the His first best selling novel, ace, was based on his own service übmarines in the Mediterranean the Far East during World War ar The Thunder and the Flame, as gone back back over 370 years the days of Drake, Howard, lisher and Grenville and their oved piracy against the Spaniards he High Seas. i the last day of August, 1591, the Azores, Sir Richard Gren , in the 500-ton Revenge which been Drake’s flagship against the tada in 1588, fought alone against Spanish ships for 15 hours, tie result was inevitable and iville gave his life for his icity, but he took 3,000 Spaniards him and 16 of their galleons, battle is still regarded as one of spies of English fighting men and nd it Fullerton bases his novel, iducing some fictitious characters the authentic historical incident arry the story.

3E Thunder And The Flame,

er & Stoughton. 24/3.)