W. F. Morris was an English novelist best known for Bretherton. Morris served with the 13th Cycle Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment during WWI, reaching the rank of Major at 27, and was awarded the Military Cross. He wrote ten novels.
Pagan is reminiscent of a Richard Hannay adventure by John Buchan - a forerunner of a whole raft of spy/adventure stories that proliferated in the 1930s. Stirring stuff. -- Paul Norman Books Monthly