Flight of the Grey Goose

Written by Victor Canning

Narrated by John Higgins

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?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Duckworth Books
• Release date: Jan 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9781788424394

Victor Canning

Victor Canning was a prolific writer, his first novel published when he was just 23. His later thrillers were dark and complex, and received great critical acclaim. "The Rainbird Pattern" was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger in 1973. In 1976 it was transformed by Alfred Hitchcock into the comic film The Family Plot. He also wrote pseudonymously as Julian Forest and Alan Gould. He died in February 1986 in Cirencester.