Nobody seemed to know it was there -something out of the past like a time bomb ticking away unheard and unseen. It wasn't until four boys discovered the wreck in an English marsh that things began to happen-things that were meant to happen more than thirty years ago while Hitler was waging his final desperate, and sometimes secret, battles. It was named the Dancing Dodo, a World War II plane with six bodies entombed inside-all bearing dog tags of men very much alive today. Who were they? What was their mission? Why have the investigators who came into contact with the plane been stricken with a strange illness not common to England? As RAF Wing Commander David Dobson and USAF Colonel Bud Hackstead search for answers, those who help them meet with violence or death. Dobson himself is brutally attacked; the woman he loves is nearly killed. And still no answer, even as the trail leads back through hidden archives to a chilling Nazi war code. Until gradually the truth about the plane's last mission, and her crew, is forced on Dobson and he must use every elusive clue in a race to prevent a disaster beside which the corpses in the plane lose their power to shock. In THE DANCING DODO John Gardner, author of The Werewolf Trace, once again shows his mastery of suspense in a gripping blend of eeriness and action that makes him unique. The Dancing Dodo by John Gardner. (Info from the jacket).