Playing a Desperate Game
Written by
William Le Queux
Copyright 1909
Contained in the book .
Jacox is spending Christmas Eve alone in London when he chances upon an old friend, Otto Engler, who is in London working on a scheme to create a new alloy. Jacox is invited to a dinner to talk more about it and is told to invite his friend, Ray Raymond. It will turn out to be a trap involving bon-bons which are really bombs.