It's interesting to see this show up so soon after philomytha's post, given the subject matter!
I thought of Fisher as soon as I read philomytha! It made me realize how few sleeper agents I can actually remember coming across in film or literature of WWII—there's a debatable example in Went the Day Well? (1942), but even something like The Next of Kin (1942, which as the basis of its cautionary commission posits an inescapable net of German spies criss-crossing an unsuspecting Britain, has them bought, coerced, or normally embedded, not activated from the waiting citizenry.
(And still very interesting to me that W.E. Johns doesn't seem to have done this particular trope in this way, although he's hardly innocent of some others.)
Especially in light of those others, I think it's fine that this particular bullet comes pre-dodged!
[edit] I meant to ask, but was extremely tired: are there analogous tropes in Johns' work, or really just nothing similar?
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I thought of Fisher as soon as I read
(And still very interesting to me that W.E. Johns doesn't seem to have done this particular trope in this way, although he's hardly innocent of some others.)
Especially in light of those others, I think it's fine that this particular bullet comes pre-dodged!
[edit] I meant to ask, but was extremely tired: are there analogous tropes in Johns' work, or really just nothing similar?