Set in a remote corner of Wiltshire, Mordon research centre is not a pretty place. From the surrounding road you come to double fences of barbed wire. They are 15 feet high, sloping at the top, and patrolled at night by armed guards with Dobermann Pinschers. Beyond them, past the five strands of high-voltage wire and the 200 yards of bare ground, you can see the squat outlines of the laboratories...

The only way in, even for a killer, is by the main gate. Yet behind the locked doors of "E" block a scientist is lying alone and dead, and a new toxin of frightening virulence has disappeared. This story of hidden danger and hidden fear for Pierre Cavell and his lovely wife moves swiftly to a chase upon a lonely road at night and a terrifying climax high over London.

First published 1962
First issued in Fontana Books 1964
Second Impression, Feb 1964

© Gilach, A.G., 1962

The sleepy calm of Marble Springs, Florida, is shattered when an unknown Englishman ruthlessly shoots his way out of the courtroom, abducting the lovely Mary Ruthven at gun-point and tearing out of town in a stolen car. Who is he? What is his concern with the girl, with the General's secluded house and with the great oil-rig twelve miles out in the Gulf of Mexico? Who are his three enemies?

Set against a sub-tropical background, this is a novel of revenge. From the opening of sudden disaster to the final reckoning - on a dusty high road at noon, in a garden by night, in the steel jungle of the oil-rig and on the sea-bed below it - the tension mounts inexorably. Alistair Maclean's story-telling has never been more brilliant, or his grip on the reader more cruelly exciting.

First published 1961
First issued in Fontana Books 1963
Fifth Impression May 1966

© Gilach, A.G., 1962