Contraband — Dennis Wheatley

Contraband is a story of international intrigue where planes flit by night to secret landing grounds, and lightless launches creep along low, desolate coastline.

A beautiful woman leads Gregory Sallust into the middle of a UK smuggling ring. We meet again the sinister figure of Lord Gavin Fortescue, who escaped all penalty for the havoc and suffering he wrought in Such Power is Dangerous; and pitted against him we find that cynical but charming egoist, Gregory Sallust, whose courage and imagination saved his friends in the dark hours of Black August.