A Cage of Ice, for example, involves a London physician who accompanies a hand-picked team of adventurers on a snowmobile journey across the Arctic to rescue a defecting Soviet scientist.
When six Sword nuclear missiles are dislodged from the floor of the ocean, the scene is set from some desperate international intrigue...Terror's Cradle The following is from the back of the book.
In Shetland, hunted by helicopter and powerboat, he pits his wits against both CIA and KGB as he barters desperately for Alison's life...Whiteout (also released as In Deep) The following is from the summary on the back of the book.
And to this strange, hostile world high above the Arctic Circle Harry Bowes had come to test the TK4—the most advanced hovercraft ever built—and walked into a nightmare on ice.
And there was no escape ... except in a chilling race for survival against the merciless Arctic and a cold, brutal killer.Black Camelot The following is from "Reviving the Story-Telling Art", Time, 30 October 1978.
There the disillusioned Rasch attempts to capture vital files from Schloss Wewelsburg, the Black Camelot that Himmler assembled as a Teutonic perversion of King Arthur's court.
In one of the best siege narratives since The Guns of Navarone, Rasch and other embittered SS men infiltrate the monstrous castle at the same time that it is being destroyed on Himmler's orders.
[3]Stalking Point From the back of the book: The Mission: Assassinate FDR and Churchill at their top secret meeting aboard the battleship Prince of Wales.
The Men: Ernie Miller, America's top acrobatics pilot, with the skill to fly low, fast, and deadly ... blackmailed into choosing between his country and the woman he loves.
Alec Ross, crack test pilot, in an airborne race to stop his best friend from turning traitor ... by shooting him down.The Semonov Impulse This was also written under the pseudonym James Meldrum.
The downfall of Russia's Czar Nicholas, the Bolshevik takeover and all the murky, bloody doings in that corner of history are, and probably will remain, as irresistible to novelists as catnip to cats.
Although the novel is set in the present, it revolves around a plot initiated in 1917 by Britain's King George V and the nefarious Sir Basil Zaharoff to rescue Czar Nicholas from the hands of the Bolsheviks.
The mission to Moscow, the Czar's immense gold treasure, the intrigues and passions surrounding the capture of the royal family, and the devilishly clever ruse the English naval officer uses to get both revenge and a final airing of his story are all revealed in rococo detail.
The Green estate, eighty square miles of priceless land in Western Australia, has been left to Captain Strutt who lives on the other side of the world in England.
As they struggle to unravel the knot that is stitched tight around Stringer Station, sixty years of remote tranquility erupt into a brutal, terrible violence...Exit The following is from the jacket cover: Who was Peterkin?
Peterkin has left a bizarre trail of clues, in the form of glazed pottery leaves, that will reveal first his own true identity, then the secret that made him a hunted man for the greater part of his life.
Close follows the carefully laid trail—from Western Australia to London to Yorkshire—a trail going back in time to the great refugee dispersals of the Second World War.
He's not the only one interested: there's a remnant of the KGB, angry CIA operative and an unpleasant British SIS agent, all intent on uncovering what Peterkin had hidden so carefully, though no one knows quite what it might be.
Set against the momentous changes of recent history and building to a set-piece climax of unrelenting tension, Duncan Kyle's thirteenth novel will be welcomed by his many fans as one of his very best.