The Air Pirate

Air liners are being taken in mid-flight and the man sent to stop it has to work out who could fly well enough to do it. Thorne wrote thrillers about the technology of the moment - motor cars, aeroplanes, wireless - while it still felt dangerous. This edition carries 57 plates of painting bound with the text, among them works by C. R. W. Nevinson, J. M. W. Turner and Frederick Calvert, dating from 1840 to 1918.