Biggles is working as Flying Air Police at Scotland Yard with his friends Algy, Bertie and Cinger (really Ginger) and has just been introduced to a problem with fake pound notes when a man enters and try to bribe him to leave the police. So of course Biggles decides to focus everything on the current case instead.

In this book we get to meet Tug, an old pilot friend of Biggles (I can't recall when/if I've read about him in some earlier book) who becomes the hidden card when they try to infiltrate the suspect's organization.

As so many other books, this also takes place in Africa and there are lions, and buffalos and other predators.

For a Biggles book, this is rather good so four stars it is (it's still a simple youth/young adult adventure novel so don't expect anything else).
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Possibly the worst Biggles book I've read. I think them encountering polar bears in the Indian Ocean sealed the 1 star grade. Not helped by Bernie being a moron, Biggles being a moron, everyone being morons.

Background: War is over, Biggles is working for Scotland Yard but is for some reason sent to chase a Nazi submarine in the Indian Ocean, and off he goes. If that sounds interesting, forget it. There are dozens of Biggles books. Every one likely to be better than this one. ( )

De Tweede Wereldoorlog is over, en Biggles en zijn vrienden hebben luchtgevechten achter zich gelaten en jagen in dit verhaal op een internationale bende valsemunters, die, verborgen achter de dekmantel van een reisbureau dat rondvluchten en jaag-reizen op groot wild organiseert.
Een ex-nazi , exploderende sigaren en internationale criminelen zijn de ingrediēnten voor een spannend jongensboek

De stereotypische houdingen van de karakters doen tegenwoordig ouderwets aan, maar passen goed bij de tijd waarin het verhaal speelt. ( )