The Man from the Clouds

The Man from the Clouds
First US edition
AuthorJ. Storer Clouston
LanguageEnglish
GenreSpy thriller
PublisherWilliam Blackwood and Sons (UK)
George H. Doran (US)
Publication date
1918
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Man from the Clouds is a 1918 spy thriller novel by J. Storer Clouston.[1] Like his better-known The Spy in Black it takes place during the First World War.[2]

Synopsis

Roger Merton, a pilot in the Royal Navy crash lands on an island off the Scottish coast. Discovering it has been taken over by German agents, he decides to pretend to be on their side in order to infiltrate them and find out exactly what is being planned.

References

  1. ^ Royle p.68
  2. ^ Burton p.377

Bibliography

  • Burton, Alan. Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
  • Royle, Trevor. Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Macmillan, 1984.


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