Bill Bolton and Hidden Danger

The night explodes with gunfire. Bill Bolton jolts awake mid-storm to find his friend Charlie crouched in his room, bleeding and terrified, having narrowly escaped men who mean to kill him. In the chaos of thunder and lightning, the two boys hatch a desperate escape using Bill's amphibious plane, soaring into the darkness with nothing but courage and a mystery that threatens Charlie's father. What has Mr. Evans stumbled into? Who are the faceless men hunting them through the rain? Bill Bolton is no ordinary teenager: he's the kind of hero who acts first and calculates later, who treats an amphibious aircraft like a bicycle and danger like an inconvenience. First published in 1933, this is undiluted adventure fiction in the British tradition, where young people solve their own problems with ingenuity and nerve. It moves at the pace of a getaway car, alternating tense moments of hiding with the thrill of flight. For readers who want their heroes young, their stakes high, and their mysteries wrapped in wartime intrigue.