Attack in the Desert

A STORY of adventure and heroism in the Libyan desert at the outbreak of the present war in Africa, before and after Italy ‘came in,’ this book has a plot that is a trifle self-conscious and elaborate. Halfway through his narration, the author drops the mystery and from then on, the reader is chiefly concerned with the problem of how the actors can escape from their physical perils and from the involved complexities of their relationships. Here the author is more at his ease than in building the framework of his story. The result is a first-class account of desert life and death. The heroes win through to safety and one of them never learns that the man who has saved his life from human enemies and the cruel wilderness is his own father. And so, at last, the author emerges from the difficulties of his plot with a most ingenious coup de théâtre. R. E.D.

W. H. C. WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN

R. E. D. RICHARD ELY DANIELSON

E. D. ELIZABETH DREW

W. F. WILSON FOLLETT

R. M. G. ROBERT M. GAY

D. McC. DAVID MCCORD