In the near future, huge airliners link Plymouth and New York in thirty hours. Sir John Custance, head of the British air police, has just become engaged to Connie Shepherd, an actress all London adores. But pirates with silent engines are plundering planes over the Atlantic, and they kidnap Connie.
Unrecognisable in disguise, Sir John follows their trail all the way to Cornwall. Written in 1919, this adventure novel already imagined a sky full of airliners.
Told by Sir John himself, at a fast pace, the novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.
