Marazan

by Nevil Shute

Paperback in good, secondhand condition. 

This was the very first of Shute's novels to be published, originally published in 1926 and this edition in 1971. It's a shameless adventure tale of a young pilot who gets wrapped up in smuggling when trying to help someone out. Shute was just 27 when this was published and it was written in the evenings when he was working full time as a chief calculator on the design of the airship R.100.