Edward Mercer's mission had seemed so simple. A benevolent, unknown American father wished to repay a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued his son during the war. A man who carried the broken-legged boy for two days through snow to receive the medical help he desperately needed. A man who then d[...]
On a night of wild storms, two lonely creatures escape from captivity. One of the creatures is a boy, Smiler, wrongly convicted of stealing, the other a cheetah, Yarra, leaving the Longleat Wild Life Park to have her cubs in privacy. Both are in danger from the outside world and each other, but some[...]
'Smiler' has to stay in hiding until his father comes home to clear him of a crime he hasn't committed, so he gets work in an animal sanctuary in Scotland, only to discover thieves planning to invade his employer's castle. And how dare he go to the police for help? The second absorbing adventure in [...]
Can the peregrine falcon, Fria, who has escaped from captivity, learn to fend for herself in the wild? And can Smiler, desperately anxious that Fria should be all right, solve for himself the problem that has kept him in hiding from the police for so long? The final book in Victor Canning's classic [...]