This is another great novel by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, and who wrote over a 100 of them. He was the self-styled "prince of storytellers., generally regarded as the earliest writer of spy fiction as we know it today, and invented the 'Rogue Male' school of adventure thrillers.
In this one, a mysterious man, Mr. Mirakel, who selects his guests from English and foreign inhabitants, invites them to his secret hideaway and miraculously transports them to a radioless, newspaperless paradise. Mirakel is master here, and too many questions are not welcome, which puts a scientifically inquiring guest in a spot...
