exciting and lovable
The thing about Manning Coles is that you can rely on them not to grieve you. For anyone who has reached the point where some books are too violent, so that he often has to lay them aside unfinished, these are a fine mixture of excitement and solidity. And they have that British habit of lapsing into bits of quotation and throwing in scraps of literal word-by-word translation from German and French that is charming and gently humorous in the midst of the tension and mayhem. I love these books.
