When Steve Redman, an American engineer working in Australia, goes to the Solomon Islands to investigate the death of a pilot in one of his employer's planes, he expects to ask a few routine questions, write a cut-and-dried report, and fly back home....
Mark Rayner's new assignment takes him on a harrowing journey from the heat and filth of Angola's diamond mines and ivory smuggling, to Massachusetts, and then, eventually, to Hong Kong, where he fights for his freedom and his life...
Here were five people brought together by a poisoned past and by a unique opportunity to make a fortune. But there was terror and betrayal to be overcome - in one of the wildest and most unforgiving places on earth. Chris Ryder: burnt-out and on the ...
In some of the most inaccessible forests on earth, giant fires burn uncontrollably through coal seams buried far beneath the ground. For Adam McKendrick, one of the few men who have the expertise to extinguish them, the deeper they are, the greater t...
From the days of gunboat diplomacy and trench warfare, nations have fought to impose their will on others. In the 21st century, the fight is for oil, but faced with a public sickened by the brutality of war, governments...
David Coburn is working undercover, but profiting from the activities of the remote outpost he is supposed to have infiltrated. Hari Tan is a sapphire trader turned modern-day pirate preying on shipping in the Malacca Strait. Heather Cameron is a U...
Death, sexual indulgence, and freshly awakened instincts-for Peter Kirkland, petrochemical geologist, these are the elements of a frightening distortion of reality surrounding the myths and legends of the English longbow, a weapon powerful enough to ...
The theft of classified documents, and the subsequent death of a British agent, reveal Communist activities in the United States of direct importance to the British Government. Sent to North America by the Seven Nine organisation, Simon Donahue disco...
Returning to New Zealand from Canada, Russ Gallagher becomes involved in a dangerous venture to recover a large quantity of illegally mined gold. Travelling to the Bay of Islands in pursuit of two American visitors who he believes have hidden the pre...
In one of the world's largest swamps, it is easy to follow trails that are not what they seem to be. For air accident analyst Jim Cogan the trails lead him into an unmanageable and obsessive relationship with a young woman for whom the swamp has beco...
Malcolm Kearney, sometime field agent of Signal Intelligence, is dragged back to operational readiness by his own fear. Working with British and North American listening networks, Kearney establishes his isolated hideout on the wild coast of the Alas...
For centuries, perceived only by a few, memories of lost civilisations have brushed across the face of earth. Discovering the beginnings of an explanation for the dreams of a young Jewish girl, New York doctor Neil Lancaster falls victim to the Nazi ...
Not until the twentieth century, when aerial photographs of the Arizona desert are delivered into the hands of one man, is there the first awareness that meteorites may have left more than craters to mark their impact with the planet. As one girl and...
AN ISLAND PARADISE...A NIGHTMARE OF TERROR... Three people: Daniel Chase, master diver; Lynne Webster, gorgeous young wife of a lost marine biologist; John Hyland, adventurer and drifter. All of them lured, manipulated and deceived in the recovery...
In California, British avionics expert Christopher Ward is leading an enquiry into the tragic disappearance of passenger aircraft working Pacific routes when he falls victim to an unexplained attempt on his life. The subsequent cancellation of Ward'...
Working on a defence project in a research laboratory, electronic engineer Richard Brendon discovers that he has become part of the cold war. Agonisingly, Brendon is required to balance the lives of his wife and children against co-operation with a f...