Woof. I only finished this for the sake of not leaving it perpetually in progress on my ereader, but would recommend giving it a skip. Or maybe only reading the first four Worrals books. If I get to the remaining six, I will report back if any are worth reading.

W.E. Johns should not write books set outside of western Europe. (Probably even Spain would be bad, idk. Could be just Northwestern Europe, and the parts of the Anglosphere that don't require writing people of colour.) The first four books were about: a) Worrals & Frecks saving their aerodrome and catching spies, b) Worrals & Frecks stopping enemy spies and rescuing stranded soldiers, c) Worrals & Frecks acting as couriers to aid the French Resistance, d) aiding the French Resistance and helping lift the siege on Malta. All of which I can pretty much get behind. This was about censoring printing presses in the British-ruled Syria, because anyone who didn't like living in a colonial police state must be a Nazi. Queue the "Are we the baddies?" Mitchell and Webb bit, except this book never even thought about asking that question. Also, every single thing about this book was deeply deeply racist, from beginning to end. I cannot overstate how it was just a parade of orientalist stereotypes; Edward Said could've based his entire thesis on just this one novel.