Perilous Discovery TPB

Trade paperback. Charles Fordingbridge and Norman Dallington had been best friends from childhood and neither believed that they would ever be parted. But the Great War comes to divide many, and the young men lose track of each other. After the war Dallington becomes a journalist and his friend pursues a freelance scientific career. Fordingbridge eventually makes a pioneering discovery, and he is obsessed by the need to bring a new invention to humanity as well as a thirst for personal financial reward. The trouble is that his discovery is a double-edged sword... Dallington soon learns that his friend is still alive and working, and he embarks on a mission to track down his friend before all Hell breaks loose. 'Perilous Discovery', originally published in 1938, was the fourth and final novel by Gunnar Johnston, and it finds the author at the height of his creativity.