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| Author | Desmond Bagley |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller novel |
| Publisher | Collins |
Publication date | 1978 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 318 |
| ISBN | 0-00-222236-1 |
| OCLC | 16476258 |
| Preceded by | The Enemy |
| Followed by | Bahama Crisis |
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Max Stafford is owner and president of a security consultation company based in London, which specializes in corporate security and anti-industrial espionage. Although his company is successful, his marriage has collapsed, and work is starting to lose its luster.
More on a whim, he decides to investigate the disappearance of minor accountant Paul Billson from one of his client firms. Billson's father, a famous aviator, had vanished in the 1930s on an air race from London to South Africa somewhere over the Sahara desert, and Billson had been obsessed for years with the desire to find out what had happened, and to dispel lingering slander that the disappearance had been staged as an insurance fraud.
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