Full Description
'The Dead-End Gang' is a fast-paced World War II thriller set in Egypt
and Libya. An audacious gang of deserters have to be stopped before a
top-secret weapon they have stolen is sold to the Nazis.
It is November 1941. The Eighth Army is forging west
to push the Germans back and relieve the besieged port of Tobruk. Captain
Strickland arrives in Egypt from the Metropolitan Police to bring the gang to
justice. With his Military Police Sergeant, Osborn, they pursue the gang in
Tobruk, through the souks and fleshpots of Cairo and finally across the
forbidding Qattara Depression in a frantic race to stop the weapon getting into
the hands of an SS Colonel.
This is HD Joslin's first published novel, a fictional
account based on the story of his Uncle Frank, then Lieutenant Elliott, who
arrived in Cairo to join the Special Investigation Branch of the Military Police
to bring down a gang of deserters called the Dead-End Kids.
