AustLit

'Returning to London after serving with the R.A.F. in the Far East, Squadron Leader Christopher Lyle finds himself unable to pick up the threads of his old life, while the girl he had married early in the war, and whom he had not seen for years, regards him as a stranger. Disillusioned, Lyle returns to India and joins his old comrade, Oliver Sturges, in business in Calcutta, but life there is soon interrupted by a meeting with Ranjit Singh (“Randy”), a Sikh ex-airman, who has a profitable racket in sending stolen planes into Central China. For the sake of the adventure, as well as the big money promised by Ranjit Singh, Lyle and Sturges agree to fly a Dakota in. They take over the aircraft on a secret airstrip just outside Calcutta, and are now flying over t he mountains of Berma…'(Publisher’s abstract.)