![]() ![]() ![]() Jo and her pal help him escape and return him to his base, but the man is filled with misgivings. Inside the barn beside which the shooter had stood is an American serviceman, bound and gagged and clearly frightened. She returns to the location with a friend, determined to look for clues to help identify the shooter, and gets more than she bargained for. She’s able to get away but of course, is deeply upset by what happened. That’s when someone starts shooting at her with a gun, typically not the kind of fire that could bring a Spitfire down – they normally fly too high for such a weapon to affect them – but Jo’s aerial stunts have put her in a precariously low position. She’s enjoying her chance at piloting a Supermarine Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, and has taken the opportunity to perform a few technically illegal but harmless maneuvers that bring her closer to land than she’s supposed to go. Jo Hardy has eagerly been doing her part since the start of the fighting, and at present works for the ATA ferrying planes between airfields. October 1942 finds England deeply embroiled in the war. Several events from past novels in the series are referred to, meaning this book contains spoilers for those works and this one also relies heavily on the reader’s knowledge of occurrences/characters in previous instalments. ![]() A Sunlit Weapon is the seventeenth book in the Maisie Dobbs series and I don’t recommend it as a standalone. ![]()
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