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Name: Stealthy Terror
Author: John Alexander Ferguson

📘 Stealthy Terror by John Alexander Ferguson

A spy thriller in the Buchan tradition in which a young Scotsman named Hugh Abercromby, a medical student in Germany, is given a cryptic document by a dying man. This leads to him becoming ensnares in a nefarious German plot to over-run England. He is pursued by agents of the super-villain behind the plot from Berlin to England, ending at the shaft head of a lonely mine near Dover.

First publish date: 1918

Authors: John Alexander Ferguson

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