A TOAST TO TOMORROW

by Manning Coles ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 2, 1941

The Literary Guild has selected this as co-choice with the author's Drink to Yesterday (published by Knopf -- see page 505 -- October 1940 bulletin). That was a brilliant, somewhat disillusioned story of counter espionage and of a youth whom it broke, Hill Saunders. This picks up the story with the tale of Tommy Hambledon, Baunder's friend and mentor, who is deus ex machine through an amazing series of episodes. This has a different feel -- it seems more naive, more light-hearted, but it is slick stuff. Hambledon has been shell-shocked, he loses his identity and takes on a German name and career, becoming Hitler's chief of police. The burning of the Reichstag shooks him into awareness, and he uses his key position to frame and foil the Nazis. Good adventure -- but lacks the distinction of the earlier book.

Pub Date: May 2, 1941

ISBN: 1601870159

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1941

Categories: FICTION