David Beaty

• Apr-1980
• / General Fiction
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A battle of nerves between a British squadron-leader and a German sea-captain.Deep in a Norwegian fjord hides the German merchant-cruiser Groningen. Squadron-leader Guy Strickland knows it is there, but Military Intelligence refuses to take his word ...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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In 1940, the airfield at Marshfield was home to the battered RAF 13 Squadron, an assortment of battled-hardened survivors and young, half-trained recruits, none of whom was more inept than Peter Maddox. Yet, time and again, Maddox achieved brilliant ...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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With its tremendous tension and electrifying impact this is one of the great novels of the air.

It is the early, dangerous days in the life of a new jet airliner. Millions of pounds have been invested in her-national prestige is at stake . . ....

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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For ten passengers it sparked off drama and disaster.

The 8.01 from Ocklington to Victoria. Crowded with passengers like any other busy commuter train on the Southern line. Each passenger cocooned in that curious dream-like limbo between home ...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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Caught in the crossfire of a successful military coup in an emerging African state, Bill Rutherford finds a political stowaway on board his charter aircraft. The stowaway is discovered and Rutherford thrown into jail to await a hideous death for 'tre...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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In the unpredictable maelstrom of war, heroes can come from the unlikeliest places...Malta, 1942 â€" a thousand miles from friends, isolated, besieged, and slowly being starved into surrender…Into that hopeless situation fly two Wellington aircraft...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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'When an aircraft disappears completely there is usually no evidence as to exactly what happened. This time, we have at least certain pointers as to the possible causes of the accident . . .'

This gripping novel tells of the events leading up ...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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The Emperor, an experimental airliner of daring design, soon runs into trouble on her maiden flight to New York and Bermuda. Violent storms, icing and faltering engines give way to mysterious, terrifying tremors . . .Penned in a small space under eno...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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Anne is twenty-five years younger than her pilot husband, Captain Maurice Corby. They live a comfortable life in affluent 1960's London suburbia, full of dinner parties and international travel. But Anne longs for excitement. So when she is introduce...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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Captain Paul Harker of Atlanta Airways must be on his mettle, if not for twenty-four hours a day, at least for the six or so hours it takes to fly the aircraft for which he is ultimately responsible across the Atlantic. There are, after all, two hund...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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The scene is a cadet training college for would-be civil aviation pilots, among them the average Benson and the brilliant Miller. It is Benson who tells the story from the moment when, coming in to land with Miller as co-pilot, he hits a tree, to the...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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October 1960.

The Russians are on the move in the Middle East. "Fuse K6!" cracks the order over the intercom of a giant jet bomber.

Squadron Leader John Falkner and his crew whip into action. They arm their awesome cargo, a giant nuclea...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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One man’s disappearance could signal the beginning of World War Three.Group Captain Gavin Gallagher, after a spectacular career as an airman, was the Commanding Officer of the most powerful nuclear rocket station in the world. Until he vanishes, wi...