The Final Count
H. C. McNeile, 1926
A legendary poison that kills by touch, a scientist who may be mad, and Hugh Drummond's amateur gang trying to stop a very modern apocalypse.
H. C. McNeile
1888–1937
McNeile served with the Royal Engineers in the First World War and took the pen name 'Sapper' from the army term for a field engineer.
Feels like dread, curiosity and war.
When a friend's idea is so strange you start diagnosing him.
I think it was at that moment that I first began to entertain doubts as to Robin’s sanity. Not that people dining near would have noticed anything amiss with him: his voice was low-pitched and quiet. But the whole idea was so utterly far-fetched and fantastic that I couldn’t help wondering if his brilliant brain hadn’t crossed that tiny bridge which separates genius from insanity. I knew the hideous loathing he had always felt for war: was it possible that continual brooding on the idea had unhinged him? Books by H. C. McNeile
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