Last Clear Chance

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Author: Burke Wilkinson ISBN: 9781789122282
Publisher: Muriwai Books Publication: September 3, 2018
Imprint: Muriwai Books Language: English
Author: Burke Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781789122282
Publisher: Muriwai Books
Publication: September 3, 2018
Imprint: Muriwai Books
Language: English

First published in 1953, this book is the second in author Burke Wilkinson’s trilogy, Adventures of Geoffrey Mildmay, and follows on from the 1948 bestseller Proceed at Will.

In Last Clear Chance, the reader is introduced to Mongoose, who follows a thin, dark thread of treason and the game played for survival stakes by Geoffrey Mildmay, a British adventurer of doubtful loyalties who comes back into the life of Bill Stacy in 1951 through the front door of the Pentagon.

Once again exposed to Mildmay’s flippant, faithless charm, Bill is also introduced to his friends, including Lady Sylvia Huntting, whose lost unhappiness attracts him; Cotton Craig, a power politician now in limbo; and the Gales, Craig’s neighbors, who alone have resisted his small-time empire. Stacy’s mistrust of Mildmay is confirmed by his association with Craig and Gale’s accidental death; their subversive activities become more overt when Stacy is beaten up and locked up, and a General kidnapped; and the ugly ambitions of a disappointed politician end aboard a Russian submarine after an unnerving run through dangerous waters….

Another gripping escape-entertainment read!

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First published in 1953, this book is the second in author Burke Wilkinson’s trilogy, Adventures of Geoffrey Mildmay, and follows on from the 1948 bestseller Proceed at Will.

In Last Clear Chance, the reader is introduced to Mongoose, who follows a thin, dark thread of treason and the game played for survival stakes by Geoffrey Mildmay, a British adventurer of doubtful loyalties who comes back into the life of Bill Stacy in 1951 through the front door of the Pentagon.

Once again exposed to Mildmay’s flippant, faithless charm, Bill is also introduced to his friends, including Lady Sylvia Huntting, whose lost unhappiness attracts him; Cotton Craig, a power politician now in limbo; and the Gales, Craig’s neighbors, who alone have resisted his small-time empire. Stacy’s mistrust of Mildmay is confirmed by his association with Craig and Gale’s accidental death; their subversive activities become more overt when Stacy is beaten up and locked up, and a General kidnapped; and the ugly ambitions of a disappointed politician end aboard a Russian submarine after an unnerving run through dangerous waters….

Another gripping escape-entertainment read!

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