"Biggles betraktade tidningsbilden som överste Raymond höll fram. Den visade en grupp män på en lång sandstrand in Australien. En av dem var spionen Erich von Stalhein.
- De påstår att de håller på med djuphavsforskning, sa Raymond. Men det har väl du också svårt att föreställa dig? Bäst att undersöka saken."

As the Biggles books are children adventure books from the middle of the last century, I don't have complicated expectations on these books, and those that have read my previous reviews know that I am willing to overlook quite a lot, but this book, just not good.

This book is from 1955, in a time when Australia is breaking its dependency on Britain and trying to figure out its future as a western Asian country, and Erich von Stalhein has been seen in Australia. Biggles and his friends rush there to figure out what Stalhein is up to. As we have learned, Stalhein is a slippery eel of a villain, and the question becomes if this is the time when he'll finally meet his end.

So far, a normal Biggles book, but the part that I didn't like at all is how the 1955 W. E. Johns treated the aborigines in this story. He seems bitter and upset about concurrent events in Kenya and takes it out on the Australians. This is a Biggles book to skip. ( )