A top-secret mission to launch a revolutionary Anglo-American missile axed by a budget-conscious government; a nuclear submarine carrying to a secret destination the scientist most concerned with its vindication, who happens to be the Vice-President ...
Brilliant young scientist Dr. Kepler West is working in the South African desert. When he falls in love with beautiful Rencha his life seems complete - until international terrorist Jean Leduox turns up in time for the most crucial nuclear tests of t...
I never saw Stewart disappear. If I had, I might have made an attempt to get the boat. I saw what took him as he came at me, mouth slackly agape. He made his first run past me swiftly, and just brushed by me. His skin was not, as I had thought a shar...
The plane was really near now. But as I flung myself over the wall I saw Rankin kneeling, rifle to shoulder. The range was down to point-blank; there was nothing I could do.
The plane's engine drowned the sound of the shot, but I knew Rankin had f...
My hands were already at Walter's throat as he fought to get clear of his harness. I kicked his feet from under him as he fumbled. I was still held in the strait-jacket grip of the Hotchkiss harness. Walter fell, rolled, dragged himself on one elbow,...
The wind struck another hammer-blow. The whaler wheeled away stern-on, and then came up with a sickening thump forrard.
'One anchor cable gone!' Minnaar shouted about the roar of the wind. 'The other...'
he never finished. the whaler sprang fre...
U-boat off the Diamond Coast ...
The U - boat veered. This was the moment I'd been waitng for. I dived. The icy water was a terrible shock. I went down, down, down. Then the U - boat's black shadow came between me and the surface, the hulk trailin...
Hallam Cane, a British engineer, arrives at desolate Cape Agulhas-the southernmost tip of Africa-to join a geological research team in their search for undersea energy. All is not as it appears at first sight.
Why has the project been beset by so ...
Zara Hennessy, feminist leader of the Cape Town terrorist cell, Rote Zora, is conducting a dangerous vendetta. As a protest she defaced the head of Nelson's effigy in Westminster Abbey and now plans to sabotage an exchange designed to demonstrate the...
A daring plot to destroy a mighty dam and release a killer flood.
Masterminding the terror is the sinister Maluti Rider from the 'mountains of death' who is determined to avenge the loss of this family, the loss of his land. At his side are four o...
PASSAGE TO DANGER...
JETWIND is magnificent. The revolutionary computerized sailing ship, swifter than the fastest clipper, will rule the seas-if she can break the speed records from South America to the Cape...
But her maiden voyage through t...
In 1909, the crack Blue Anchor liner, the Waratah, sinks without trace, or survivors, off the coast of South Africa. In 1967, the Gemsbok, a Viscount airliner of South African Airways disappears in exactly the same place.
To some it is merely an ...
Stein saw the white death in front of him and blenched. His face turned a sickly green and he pulled out the Luger. "Get back " he screamed. "Astern, astern " He groped madly for the telegraph, pitching John, who was at the wheel, on the plating of t...
The discovery of a major source of iridium near the diamond fields of South Africa was a deadly secret. For whoever controlled the supply of that rare metal so essential to strategic weapons development would have world power at his fingertips. But a...