"Bigglesworth, if you'll join our intelligence staff, I'll give you any rank within reason." he declared.

Biggles shook his head. "It's very nice of you Sir, but I should be absolutely useless in an official capacity," he said slowly. "I have my own way of doing things ..."

Sometimes, as Colonel Raymond discovers, the unofficial way of dealing with trouble can be the most effective. When a foreign power is discovered to be sinking British shipping in the Indian ocean, he calls in Biggles and his team to stop it by any means they care to use. And so Biggles and his friends set off on one of the most hair-raising and spine-chilling adventures they have ever encountered...

goodreads summary

1963. This Edition. 158 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.