Description: The newest, most secret weapon is tested over an airfield in Germany by an RAF plane which was then ordered to land in Cyprus. On the way the plane was hijacked and set course for Russia, but it crashed close to an international frontier between East and West.
It's
a solid, economically written cold war thriller about a race between
American/British and Russian forces to make it to an airplane crash site
high on a mountain on the border of Russia and Turkey.
The
politics seem a little dated sometimes, but the mountain climbing scenes
are riveting. And, as the hero makes clear, the politics fade away in
the struggle of man vs. mountain. A solid thriller and a good afternoon's read.