The story
1943 - the Pacific War.
U.S. Submarine 'Shark' is gliding through enemy waters on a dangerous mission.
Ken Braden, young officer just out of the Underwater Demolition School, has to swim ashore to a Jap-held island, photograph a code and get back to the patrolling sub. - without detection.
This is one of the most exciting sea-stories of all time, written by a man who knows all about action.

Translated from the French by Alan Neame

Have you always been baffled by the crises of Suez and Hungary in 1956? Have you, perhaps, never understood the real motives that lay behind these events? Now, for the first time, Henry Ward reveals the fabulous drama that hung like a dark question-mark in the sky over this scene, putting Colonel Nasser, the British and French governments and even the unfortunate people of Hungary into their correct perspective, mere pawns on a chessboard that stretched from the Chinese desert to the poisonous wastes of Mars, in a game in which the fighting pieces were brilliant scientists and ruthless secret agents, and the stakes were, for one side, the means to destroy all organic matter, to dominate the world irrestistibly, and for the other Life itself. It is a story which sheds a sinister light on the events of the past few months.
In publishing this account, Henry Ward is acting on higher instructions, for it points to the terrible dangers of man's self-destructive rivalry, and reveals the imperative necessity of unity if we are to preserve this planet. It is a tale of incredible ingenuity and invention in which men struggled for a power that was too hot for them to handle, in which one side, confronted by a technical mastery which it could not match, resorted to weapons which were as fantastic as they were simple, in which a film producer was put in charge of a military operation and the crack troops were recruited from the madhouse.
Henry Ward is a name destined to become a household word, at once a hero of illimitable resource and a voice crying in the wilderness.

Originally published in Paris under the title of 
L'enfer est dans le Ciel
© Henry Ward, 1960
English translation © Alan Neame, 1960
Printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, 
London, Reading & Fakenham.