The Man from the Clouds
During the First World War, a naval officer stranded on a Scottish island suspects it harbors enemy spies.
Roger Merton, a young naval lieutenant from the volunteer reserves, is on a balloon reconnaissance mission with an officer when their balloon loses its moorings and drifts into the fog. Blown to they know not where, Merton’s colleague bails, while Merton waits until he’s more certain of being over land. When he does parachute to safety, Merton finds that he’s not in enemy territory, but rather in one of the islands in the North Sea off the Scottish coast. Still uncertain as to who inhabits it, he begins to suspect there may be treachery afoot. But where could German spies be hiding on such a barren island? The Man from the Clouds is another early spy thriller, like J.
- Listening time
- about 6 h 30 min
- Length
- 60,540 words
- Public domain
- the author died in 1944
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 336 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Just Added
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How it begins.
In an instant I was craning over the side of the basket. Five hundred feet, 700 feet, 1,000 feet, 2,000 feet below us, the cruiser that had been our only link with the world of man was diminishing so swiftly that, as far as I remember, she had shrunk to the smallness of a tug and then vanished into the haze before I even answered him. “Anything to be done?” I asked. “Nothing,” said he.
The Man from the Clouds · J. Storer Clouston
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