Desai Saves The Day

Some novel titles used to be a full sentence beginning with the central character's name, e.g.:  

Mr. Britling See It Through by HG Wells;

Biggles Sees It Through by WE Johns;

The Saint Sees It Through by Leslie Charteris; 

Henrietta Sees It Through by Joyce Dennys;

Ben Sees It Through by J. Jefferson Farjeon;

Miami Sees It Through by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack;

Bertie Wooster Sees It Through by PG Wodehouse;

Bulldog Sees It Through (but this one is a film);

Bulldog Drummond Stands Fast by Gerard Fairlie.

Sorry, folks. I meant to avoid a list, then I found eight times "...Sees It Though." Why couldn't Drummond have seen it through?

My point, however, was that Chunderban Desai is the unsung hero of Poul Anderson's The Day Of Their Return and that an alternative title could have been Desai Saves The Day (or even ....Sees It Through). Check it out:

the Sector Governor's office is taken in by Aycharaych;

Desa lets Aycharaych travel on Aeneas because the Governor has ok'ed it;

however, Desai also has a hunch and checks with Terra;

he learns the truth about Aycharaych;

he tells Tatiana Thane;

she tells Ivar Frederiksen;

Ivar asks Jaan to describe an Elder;

the description matches Aycharaych...;

Ivar pulls back from the brink...;

of course, Aycharaych escapes and fights Flandry later.

 

But well done, Desai.