LeQueux(1864-1927)wasanAnglo-Frenchjournalistandwriterwhowasalsoadiplomat,traveller,flyingbuffandwirelesspioneer.Hisbest-knownworksaretheanti-Frenchandanti-RussianinvasionfantasyTheGreatWarinEngland(1894)andtheanti-GermaninvasionfantasyTheInvasionof1910(1906),thelatterbecomingaphenomenalbestseller.Hewroteover150novels,manydealingwithinternationalintrigue,andalsoanumberofnon-fictionworks.Thisshortnovel,subtitledBeingtheRomanceofanAir-womanofTo-day,wasfirstpublishedin1917.