Churchill Commando

by Ted Willis

Highly efficient, fully-equipped, armed and organised ... an army of vigilantes strike at the targets the Government cannot - or dare not - touch

Genres: Fiction

223 pages, Paperback

Published April 14, 1978

About the author

Ted Willis (1914-1992) was a British playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party. He was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most prolific writer for television, and also wrote 34 stage plays and 39 feature films.

Reviews

[Tim Trewartha · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 and a half stars. Unexceptional thriller from the 1970s. Had potential, didn't live up to it.

[John Savage · Rating 2 out of 5]

Remember reading this years ago and I believe it was serialised in possibly the Mail or Express as there were TV adverts featuring the train scene. Read it again and not a great story with a poor ending. I can see certain members of the British public salivating at it until near the end though.

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

I expected a poor, tawdry thriller but instead found an enjoyable, tawdry thriller.

[Mark Speed · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fairly dreadful novel about a right-wing unit put together to clamp down by all means necessary on behaviour that Daily Mail readers found upsetting at the time. Note that this was written around about the time of large-scale strikes in the UK, and that Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister just a couple of years after publication.

I believe that this is the Ted Willis who wrote it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Willis
Note that this dreadful novel isn't in his bio.

I found it on my elder brother's shelves.