The Air Pirate

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Louis Meijer, Ivan Aivazovsky and Casparus Johannes Morel. 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 paintin...