The Republican Government of Evalonia is facing its doom despite the efforts of its members. The grave question is whether its fall will be accompanied by blood baths and murder. The monarchists scheme for the return of Prince John; but first Juventus, the virile youth movement, has other plans.
This story is the final adventure of Dickson McCunn and the Gorbals Diehards, Jaike and Dougal, and it tell how they, Alison Westwater, the Roylances, and not forgetting Randal Glynde and his circus manage to engineer Prince John's restoration.
This is good old fashioned adventure first published in 1925. The above cast of characters through an amazing set of coincidence's manage to all be in the same place at the same time to battle several evil customers and cement their personal relationships.
This is really good fun, not great literature but enjoyable. Buchan does get a bit carried away in his descriptiveness , lots of "crouching like a coiled lion" stuff but this is a minor criticism and doesn't detract from the narrative too much.
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