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Biggles Delivers the Goods ( published just three years after Biggles in Borneo ) repeats the earlier work's basic plotline so closely that the later novel is clearly a revision of the earlier one.

In both books Biggles establishes a secret airfield behind Japanese lines which is discovered and attacked by the Japanese before he can achieve his objectives.

Algy is captured by the Japanese and threatened with execution by a brutal Japanese commandant, and rubber ( as an important strategic material ) figures largely.

All ends well in both novels, as a massive air attack relieves the brave defenders of the airfield and defeats the Japanese.

The protagonists are also closely paralleled in both novels, although in Biggles Delivers the Goods Li Chi ( originally from a short story in Biggles Flies Again ) reappears to take the place of a white character from the earlier version, and the headhunters, while still milked for " exotic colour " are much more sympathetically treated.