The Secret Cave

The adventures begin in earnest when a balloonist’s valve malfunctions bringing his aircraft down with a bump just outside the cave. Can the lads help to get the balloon aloft again? No, but they know someone who can. Lewy is immediately conscripted to supply the hot air needed to inflate the balloon’s envelope, while the kids’ granddad is brought in to tinker with the valve in his workshop. Dragons, says granddad, I knew one once… the Blackdown Dragon. Grandparents always understand their grandlings and The Secret Cave is no exception.

The picaresque saga continues with Lewy offering himself up as an improvised furnace in order to fix a horseshoe. Later he helps with a stakeout in a deserted village where dangerous bank robbers armed with sawn-off shotguns are planning a getaway in a high-powered Black Range Rover. But these are no hoop-shirted ne’er-do-wells with swag bags – what we have here is a gang of sinister hi-tech hoisters that will test every ounce of the lads’ courage. Needless to say the big-hearted Lewy steps in to save the day by doing the job of the hapless local constabulary for them. As the summer hols draw to a close the boys will be able to return to their studies with tales of adventure, the likes of which their school friends will have never heard before.

The Secret Cave
Published By Rare Books and Berry
Hard back
64pp with illustrations
ISBN 978-0-9557119-4-7

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