![]() ![]() Originally serialised in The Boy's Standard in 1875-76, reprinted in Boy's Leisure Hour in 1884 and subsequently reissued in 12 penny parts by Hogarth House, On the Queen's Service has been out of print for over a century. Will Harry survive long enough to join the British troops as they march into the Valley of Death? Before he has even left England, Harry finds himself looking down the barrel of a gun-and that's just the start of an adventure that will see him ambushed and trapped in the Alps, tracked by secret police, captured by Cossacks, tortured, attacked by wild animals and cannibals, and battling a madman in a hot-air balloon. ![]() The year is 1855 and Harry Dunbar is sent by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on a mission to deliver two messages to Istanbul. ![]() James Bond meets Indiana Jones in this fast-paced thriller set in part around the action of the Crimean War. ![]()
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