Carr is flying a film company's plane around the Caribbean. The plane is an old war-time bomber, and Carr's job soon proves to be less peaceful than he expected. Gavin Lyall is an ex-RAF bomber, has spent four years writing for "The Sunday Times" and wrote his first thriller in 1961.

Shooting Script

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gavin Lyall

Thrillers & Suspense

Pan Books

'One of the best of its kind' New York Times
Roy Case, ex-Royal Air Force turned cargo pilot, lands in Nicosia to discover that his employers have gone bankrupt. Stranded at a rapidly deteriorating hotel, and assaulted in the street, he realises that the cases clearly marked 'champagne' that he was supposed to be flying to Lebanon actually contain machine guns.
Luckily Case's old friend Cavitt is around to help, but no sooner are they rid of the guns than they get caught up in a terrorist plot that will draw them in, and start a hunt for a priceless long-lost relic.
'Sprightly Maltese Falconesque skulduggery … full of reverses and betrayals' Kirkus Reviews

Judas Country

Pan/Macmillan

Operation Warboard

Bernard Lyall

Macmillan

Creased spine and page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

The Secret Servant

'Mr Kemp - I believe you smuggle art? I have a little proposition...'It seemed like money for old rope. All Kemp had to do was arrange the smooth passage of a Cezanne across the border to Switzerland, so it could then be transported to its new owners in Nicaragua. And anything was preferable to London in January.After the train-ride, he awakes in a Zurich park with a bump the size of a burial mound on his head, minus the priceless work he'd been carrying. The very next day he runs into Harry Burroughs at the airport. Kemp suspects that it wasn't just coincidence. Burroughs is a fine-art dealer, and an even finer crook. If he is mixed up in all this, Kemp knows that from now on he will have to earn his money the hard way.First published in 1969, Venus with Pistol was Gavin Lyall's fifth novel.

Venus with pistol

Hodder&Stoughton

James Card loses his reputation as a bodyguard when his client, a Lloyd's underwriter, is shot right under his nose. So he begins research into the dead man's background. The author has written several bestselling thrillers including "The Wrong Side of the Sky" and "Uncle Target".

Blame the dead

Hodder and Stoughton

The conduct of Major Maxim

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Televised as "The Secret Servant" this thriller features Major Harry Maxim whose mission to Jordan changes from a simple demolition job to an epic run for freedom. A woman's unofficial line of enquiry into his activities leads to the heart of the matter and a change in the direction of his fate.

Uncle Target (Coronet Books)

Major Harry Maxim finds himself at odds with the KGB, the CIA, and his own government while uncovering a secret that threatens his life and the world

The Crocus List

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Spy's Honour

Genre Fiction

Coronet Books

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