Hammond Innes

The Soviets have cut off food and fuel supplies to West Berlin in a final attempt to force a stranglehold over the city. The Allied response is the Berlin airlift: thousands of planes carrying supplies - a lifeline to the people of the city.
A chance for heroism perhaps, but not for Neil Fraser or Bill Saeton. One is an ex-RAF pilot on the run from the law, the other will stop at nothing to build the perfect aircraft engine. In an abandoned hangar in the British countryside, tensions rise to boiling point.

The search is on for Vikki, the beautiful adopted daughter of a Romanian dissident, who has escaped to reclaim her birthright in the Himalayan mountains.

Scotsman Ian Ward travels to the Antarctic to find the truth behind some notes, scribbled by a glaciologist just before his plane crashed, about a ghost ship trapped in the ice. Could a ship remain locked in the ice for centuries? Or was there a darker, more sinister secret buried in the frozen wastes?

When disaster overtakes a geological survey team, Ian Ferguson makes a perilous journey of over two thousand miles to the lonely wastes of Labrador. What has driven him to do this and what is the link with similar events in that area fifty years previously?

Neil Blair is relishing an expenses-paid holiday in the Italian Dolomites, where he plans to finish his film script. All goes wrong, however, when he stumbles on the location of a hoard of buried Nazi gold. From then on, he faces a terrifying race for his life from a group of murderous criminals.

A sailor fights to clear his name after his ship sinks in the last days of World War II, taking its cargo of bullion to the bottom of the sea.