FLYAWAY<br >I~.1111<br >The disappearance of Paul Billson， clerk in an engineering firm，<br >seemed a minor matter to Max Stafford， head of the outside con-<br >sultants responsible for security. Personal rather than security rea-<br >sons seemed to be involved-until 7outine enquiries about Billson<br >resulted in Stafford himself being ~ beaten up. If the attack was<br >meant as a warning it failed in its p~rpose， for Stafford had a bull-<br >dog streak. He was determined now to know who and what lay<br >behind it. He decided to go after Billson himself.<br > Billson had impulsively taken off for the Sahara， where his air<br >ace father had crashed during the London-Cape Town air race of<br >1936. A recent newspaper smear implied he had survived to profit<br >from an insurance swindle. Now his unstable son was intent on<br >finding the plane wreck to clear his father s name， and someone<br >else was determined he should never find it. What secret did the<br >forty-year-old wreck contain?<br > For Stafford， aided by an enigmatic American who had made<br >the desert his home， it became a race to reach Paul Billson before<br >/aired killers did; a race to locate the wrecked plane and solve the<br >mystery; a race to return alive.<br > Exciting desert action， fine descriptive writing and charac-<br >terization， and an exotic setting combine to make this one of<br >super-storyteller Desmond Bagley s best adventure novels yet.<br ><br >