Classic adventure from the million copy bestseller Jack Higgins

The called it the Place of Silence: the last frozen barrier between Balpur and Tibet. An icy wilderness where desperate men made a living smuggling guns across the border.

Even for the bravest, the luck has to run out...

On what he thought would be his last flight, Jack Drummond found his own recipe for disaster. A deadly cargo of machine guns. A band of ruthless guerrillas. And a confrontation with the Chinese Reds, leaving no chance for escape...

About the Author

Jack Higgins lived in Belfast till the age of twelve. Leaving school at fifteen, he spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, and was later a teacher and university lecturer. His thirty-sixth novel, The Eagle Has Landed (1975), turned him into an international bestselling author, and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into sixty languages. Many have been made into successful films. He died in 2022, at his home in Jersey, surrounded by his family.

Reviews

'A compulsively readable storyteller' Sunday Express

'Jack Higgins is the master craftsman of good, clean adventure...in the footsteps of Sapper and the great John Buchan' Daily Mail

Book Information
ISBN 9780007234820
Author Jack Higgins
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint HarperCollins
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Weight(grams) 170g
Dimensions(mm) 178mm * 111mm * 18mm