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1954. Northern Mission
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At the time of publication, James Wood was heralded as a new Scottish writer and was 35 years old. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen and served in the army throughout World War II. He lived in Elgin, and had worked in the Highlands in many different jobs from precision engineer to farm labourer. He enjoyed wild-fowling, fishing and motor cycles. Prior to the publication, he was better known for his contributions to the sporting press

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• Northern Mission [top]
  Jacket design by John Robinson
  First published in 1954 in Great Britain by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 3 Henrietta Street, London, W.C.2; in hardback with dustjacket, 204pp
  Original UK retail price: 10s. 6d. net (10 shillings and sixpence)

Story: Colonel Findlay, retired after World War II, and hoping for a quiet life on his Lowlands farm, finds himself drawn again by his friends into a peace-time adventure much stranger than any he has known hitherto. Blar Geal, a new atomic reactor station under construction in the remote highlands of Scotland, is the target of a determined gang of international sabateurs, whose cunningly laid plans slowly gather momentum and result in a terrific midnight battle inside the atom station itself-the climax of the book-before they are finally checkmated