The Elusive Grasshopper (by Malcolm Saville)

In slowly re-reading Malcolm Saville’s ‘Lone Pine’ series, I reached the sixth, ‘The Elusive Grasshopper’, which I had not read since 2009. It follows on directly from ‘Lone Pine Five’, which I read towards the end of last year. Not that it’s necessary to have read that one first; but there are a few links that make more sense if they’re read in order. 

This book opens, unusually, in Paris.  Jon and Penny Warrender have been in France for a couple of weeks to improve their language. It’s wor...