Final Count (Classic Thrillers S.) - Softcover

Sapper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460022474 ISBN 13: 9780460022477

Publisher: Everyman Ltd, 1985

Synopsis

192 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Count-down To Terror Set Against The Glittering Backdrop Of 1920s Society.

About this title

About the Author:

'Sapper' is the pen name of Herman Cyril McNeile, born in 1888 at the Naval Prison in Bodmin, Cornwall, where his father was Governor. He served in the Royal Engineers (popularly known as 'sappers') from 1907-19, being awarded the Military Cross during World War 1. He started writing in France, adopting thepen name because serving officers were not allowed to write under their own names. When his first stories, about life in the trenches, were published in 1915 they were an enormous success. But it was his first thriller, Bulldog Drummond (1920) that launched him as one of the most popular novelists of his generation. It had several amazingly successful sequels, including The Black Gang, The Third Round and The Final Count. Another great success was Jim Maitland (1923), featuring a footloose English sahib in foreign lands. Sapper published nearly thirty books in total, and a vast public mourned his death when he died in 1937, at the early age of forty-eight.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman Ltd
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0460022474
• ISBN 13: 9780460022477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208