Jaikie and Dougal, two past members of the Glasgow Street gang, The Gorbals Die Hards adopted by Mr Dickson McCunn visit McCunn at his country retirement home in a novel is set six years after the first book that introduced these characters, 'Huntingtower".
From there the two young men take off tramping. At the first nights accommodation they find a newspaper magnate who has recently escaped from a kidnapping where he was mistaken for a local politician.
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They are asked to go to the country estate Castle Gay, of the newspaper owner, Mr Craw and arrange for him to be uplifted by his staff. On arrival at the castle it is found that this is not possible due to citizens of a European country wanting Mr Craw for their own purposes , to legitimize there control of the country and by another group wanting to re-install the legitimate ruler through the use of his newspaper empire.
This is a 'thriller'' but its all boys own stuff, where doing the right thing and being a decent person will see the good guys win in the end. There is great descriptions of the Scottish countryside, great dialogue and its just 'nice'. There's nothing wrong with doing the right thing and decency winning, in fact its something I admire.
This isn't in the league of the Hannay books, certainly not as serious but a very pleasant read.
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