GRAY, Berkeley - Conquest in Command - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Scarce item - Book still very good - Gift massage dated 1957 inside 192 pg.- Wrapper poorish with paper-loss at spine ends - Same edition Google image used.  . - Berkeley Gray, is a pseudonym for - Edwy Searles Brooks (1889-1965). Brooks also wrote under the pen names Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross.   >>>   WHEN a certain unscrupulous multi-millionaire attempts to hire Norman Conquest to take on a kidnapping job, he asks for trouble in no uncertain voiceand gets it. For the daring young adventurer, although ever ready to flout the law draws the line at kidnappingespecially when the subject to be kidnapped is an innocent child of four, and the subject's mother is a slim and beautiful blonde of twenty-three. Having refused the commission, Conquest is subjected to a succession of violent body blows, and readers of this exciting novel will be enthralled by the way in which he not only retains full command of the situation, but also turns the tables devastatingly on his enemies at the very moment when the outlook seems at its blackest. There are many unexpected and ingenious twists in this fast-moving story, and old friends like Mandeville Livingstone and Superintendent Bill Williams of Scotland Yard are well to the fore.