Lone Pine Five (by Malcolm Saville)

In my re-reading of Malcolm Saville’s ‘Lone Pine’ series for teenagers, I reached the fifth in the series, ‘Lone Pine Five’. The title simply means that it’s the fifth Lone Pine book - perhaps it was originally a working title, and nobody could think of anything better. It used to confuse me, because there are six Lone Piners in the book (or seven if Macbeth the Scottie dog is included). 

When I last read this book, almost twelve years ago, I had an abridged (and possibly updated) Armada pap...