Pan Books-Heinemann

In the unrelenting chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into the frozen Soviet wilderness. For Halvard Starheim, adventurer and mountaineer, their deaths are both a personal and professional tragedy. Haunted by the suspicion that they were betrayed, he resigns...

CHAPTER ONEWalter Mosca felt a sense of excitement and the last ovet-whelming loneliness before a homecoming. The few ruinsIt'loutside of Paris were remembered and familiar landmarks, and;now on the last leg of his journey he could hardly wait to come to his final destination, the heart of the...

A sky the colour of old bruises hung low over the battlefields of France, and^rolled with ponderous dignity towards the German lines. Brigadier-General Sean Courtney had spent four winters in France and now, with the eye of a cattleman and a farmer, he could judge this weather almost as...

Nicholas Berg stepped out of the taxi on to the floodlit dock and paused to look up at the Warlock. At this state of the tide she rode high against the stone quay, so that even though the cranes towered above her, they did not dwarf her.Despite the exhaustion that fogged his mind and cramped his...

OneThere were bodies all around, clear in the moonlight, some in lifejackets, some not. Way beyond, the sea was on fire with burning oil and as Martin Hare lifted on the crest of a wave, he saw what was left of the destroyer, her prow already under the water. There was a dull explosion, her stem...