The Common Smith VC Adventures Books
1920, the slaughter of World War I is over, but already secret little wars are breaking out all over the New Europe. Poland is threatened by both Russia and Germany, and Sub-Lieutenant de Vere Smith is dispatched by the British Secret Service to take arms to the Poles.
A Common Smith V.C. Story Spring 1922. The Greek army is retreating from Turkey and Kemal Attaturk, the Turkish dictator, intends to have their convoy sunk. The resulting chaos will help a defeated Germany and Russia unless someone intervenes. "C", the mysterious head of the British Secret Service knows that Britain is already far too stretched, the French have their own affairs and America has retreated into isolation. As always, in such situations, he turns to young Common Smith VC and his gang on SWORDFISH. Against all odds, Smith and the SWORDFISH fight their way to Alexandria, where their real mission will begin...
Russia, 1924. Lenin is dying. Soviet Russia is on the brink of an explosion... King George V decides he must help his one key relative in Russia to escape. In 1918 he had refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar - now the King orders that Serge, the Tsar's illegitimate son, be saved. 'C', the head of the British Secret Service, gives the task to Common Smith VC and the crew of the Swordfish, but 'C' is playing a double game. He sees Serge as a future Tsar - little does he know he is not the only one who doesn't want Serge to reach Britain.
Smith is ordered to sail secretly to the British army HQ on the Rhine to prevent the planned assassination of the British commander-in chief. C, head of MI6, heard of the plot which aims to unite Germany under the leadership of Hitler. C tells Smith he must not fail - for Europe's sake.
From the COMMON SMITH VC series, a military thriller set in China in 1927, when the communists and nationalists are fighting amongst themselves, and the Japanese, needing an excuse to invade, kidnap a Japanese princess in Shanghai and accuse Chinese bandits of her abduction. Follows PASSAGE TO PETROGRAD and THE BALTIC RUN.
A Common Smith V.C. Story Germany 1929. England, France and the USA are preparing to de-militarise the West Bank of the Rhine. German nationalists, financed by the great industrialists, have other ideas. They want the area re-incorporated into the Weimar Republic and plan a series of strikes against Allied troops marching westwards. The "Hell's Angels" - barnstorming German ex-pilots who fled to America after the war - are recalled to Germany for the final attack on the withdrawing allies. Common Smith VC and the crew of the SWORDFISH, alerted by the mysterious head of the Secret Service, have to stop the Hell's Angels reaching Europe.