All pages intact - reader copy Book cover is stained, faded and has pen markings Crayon on inside first few pages Staining on some pages See photos showing these details Vail Ballou Press, 1943, 381 pages • Running to Paradise (1943) Between returning to England and joining the S.O.E., Lodwick managed to write his first novel. It won Dodd, Mead’s award for best war novel, but could just as easily have been considered an autobiography, drawn heavily from Lodwick’s time in France after its fall in 1940. Its central figure, an Englishman by the name of Adrian Dormant, was a fictional alter ego who would appear again in a half-dozen or more of Lodwick’s later books. John Hampson described Dormant as “a consciously unheroic figure, with a prodigious fondness for liquor.”