Red Randall in Burma (Red Randall, No. 7)

210 pp. Red Randall and Jimmy Joyce are en route to Calcutta to join the Twelfth Air Force when Japanese dive bombers swoop down out of the sky and send Transport 58 to the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Adrift on a life raft, the two Yanks cling to the hope that they will be rescued. They are…but by a Japanese submarine! In their dank little cell aboard the submarine they find another airman—an R.A.F. officer—more dead than alive. The story of his escape from Burma in a Japanese plane, and of the plight of Allied men trapped there behind the enemy’s lines, fires Red and Jimmy with a grim determination to finish the work he had set out to do. How Red and Jimmy will escape and carry out the daring finish to the R.A.F. officer’s incomplete mission makes for a high-powered story of flying and adventure.