A story of the location of shipwrecked treasure (gold ingots) being hunted down by 4 children George, Julian, Dick and Ann (sic) and their dog Tim up against a couple of machinating baddies...
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
La Grande-Bretagne a conclu un accord international au cours des 50 dernières années avec une petite île du Pacifique. Il a été ignoré jusqu'à ce que la mort de leur roi le porte à l'attention du Foreign Office à Whitehall. Ils décident d'envoyer Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne pour rétablir des relations amicales.