Landfall: A Channel Story Book

3.5 stars rounded up.

Landfall was written in 1940 so this is another Nevil Shute novel which deals with an aspect of WWII in England. It does not have Shute's trademark structure with the main protagonist, a "regular guy" (or gal), put in an unusual situation and asked to do something very difficult. Nor is the story narrated by the main protagonist; it is told from many POVs. Despite it not feeling like a Nevil Shute story, it is still a well-told story with terrific characters and it held my interest from start to finish.

Our main protagonist is very endearing, upbeat and humorous. He is a pilot (of course). He finds himself in precarious situations in his job which initially involves ocean patrol but changes over the course of the story. I don't want to say more. There is also a love story and a mystery solved by an unlikely "detective."

Altogether, a good read but not among Shute's finest efforts.