Flight of the Grey Goose

Name: Flight of the Grey Goose
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Victor Canning
ISBN: 9781788424394

Author: Victor Canning

Series: The Smiler Trilogy #2

Narrator: John Higgins

Unabridged: 6 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Duckworth Books

Published: 01/31/2023

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Classic, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Canning's classic children's trilogy continues as fifteen-year-old Smiler, still on the run from the police, hitches a ride to Scotland.
Fifteen-year-old Smiler is still on the run.
Smiler is aiming to evade the police until his father, a ship’s cook, comes home to clear him of a crime he hasn't committed. Hitching a train to Scotland, he finds work as an animal caretaker within the grounds of a castle occupied by ‘the Laird’, Sir Alec Elphinstone.When the Laird leaves on a trip to London, Smiler discovers that thieves are planning to invade his employer's castle.
Dare he go to the police for help?

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on October 11, 2018

I really like Victor Canning's thrillers and I have a great arrangement with a couple who patrol a large warehouse full of old books that if any of his turn up they steer them in my direction. I hadn't realised that Mr C wrote "YA" (which I assume stands for Youth/Adolescent) literature and was init......more

Goodreads review by Joan on July 22, 2020

Enjoyed in the 80's.......more

Goodreads review by Harini on October 09, 2021

And this brings the Runaways trilogy to a satisfying conclusion. A perfect series for teens who love nature and adventure. I wonder why I never came across this as a child. The name Victor Canning was familiar, but only as a writer of thriller/spy fiction, which I wasn't very keen on. So glad I stumb......more

Goodreads review by David on August 21, 2013

Pt2 of the 'Smiler' trilogy I first read as a teen, re-read it lately and found it and just as exciting and heart warming as the first time.......more