Flyaway is a first person narrative thriller novel by English author Desmond Bagley, first published in 1978.

More on a whim, he decides to investigate the disappearance of minor accountant Paul Billson from one of his client firms.

Billson's father, a famous aviator, had vanished in the 1930s on an air race from London to South Africa somewhere over the Sahara desert, and Billson had been obsessed for years with the desire to find out what had happened, and to dispel lingering slander that the disappearance had been staged as an insurance fraud.

Stafford’s search takes him to Algiers, then the deep desert area around Tamanrasset in southern Algeria, and across the border into Niger.

Other people, with tremendous resources are also searching – and will kill to prevent the truth of a 40 year old incident to emerge.