Adam Hall

A COUPLE OF AIR-HOSTESSES Came in through the glass doors, crisp and pure-looking in Lufthansa uniform. They looked once at the group of pilots who stood at the soft-drinks bar and then swung on their spiked heels to preen themselves in the mirrors. The pilots turned to watch them, all of them...

1 LONDON There would be no warning, I knew that. In the total darkness I thought I could see things: the glint of his eyes, liis bared teeth; and in the silence I thought I could hear his breath and the soft tentative padding of his feet as he looked for me; but all I saw and heard was in my...

1BUCHARESTThey found me in Rome and the embassy phoned my hotel and I went along there and talked to London, and Signals said something had come imstuck in Bucharest and 'Mr Croder would be grateful' if I could get on aplane and see if I could pull anyone out alive. They hadn't actually put it like...

1. BirdseyeI came in over the Pole and we were stacked up for nearly twenty minutes in a holding circuit round London before they could find us a runway and then we had to wait for a bottleneck on the ground to get itself sorted out and all we could do was stare through the windows at the downpour...

1 LONDONThere would be no warning, I knew that.In the total darkness I thought I could see things: the glint of his eyes, his bared teeth; and in the silence I thought I could hear his breath and the soft tentative padding of his feet as he looked for me; but all I saw and heard was in my...