NO REST FOR BIGGLES
Book First Published on 15th March 1956 - 159 pages
This story was first published, in eight parts, as NO REST FOR
BIGGLES in Junior Mirror
issues 53 to 60, dated 28th
September 1955 to 16th November 1955
First edition dust jacket showing the original price of 7
shillings and 6 pence
Biggles is sent to investigate
the disappearance of aircraft over Africa. The aircraft contained V.I.P.'s who
were carrying with them secret documents. Pretending to carry a V.I.P. in his
aircraft, Biggles is forced to land in Liberia after a secret weapon causes his
plane to suffer engine failure. The picture on the dust cover of the book is
Biggles' plane coming down. Ginger is in Biggles' plane and he escapes into the
jungle whilst Biggles is captured and taken to meet Christophe, a black
American who is planning to set up a black empire in Africa. He has stolen a
new American plane containing the secret weapon and is using it to steal
secrets to sell to the highest bidder, in order to finance his scheme. Biggles
is put in a prison compound with other prisoners taken from planes captured
earlier. Biggles discovers that behind Christophe are Iron Curtain agents,
including Von Stalhein and Zorotov (from Biggles in the Blue). Meanwhile Ginger has made contact with
Algy and Bertie and Algy has flown back to base to get a smaller aircraft as
there are difficulties landing in the rough terrain. Von Stalhein offers the
captured Biggles wire-cutters to escape in a deal that would see him double
crossing both Christophe and Zorotov, whom Von
Stalhein later shoots. Ginger and Bertie however, have found where Biggles is
and get the wirecutters off Von Stalhein. With these,
all the prisoners escape and steal a plane to get away. Biggles, Ginger and
Bertie remain to destroy the aircraft with the secret weapon. Biggles sabotages
Christophe's radio and leaves him without communications. Von Stalhein flies
off to an unknown destination but returns with a small army and attacks
Christophe and his men. Biggles uses a petrol and oil dump to destroy the
secret weapon. With this gone, there is no reason for Von Stalhein to remain.
An exhausted Biggles and Ginger, together with an injured Bertie fly to safety
when Algy returns and they take with them Christophe who they find has only
been wounded in the attack.
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No Rest for Biggles
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