This book is an adventure/romance/thriller and is set in London, the Balearics, Algeria and Libya, over one year from the late summer1981.
Mike Chambers, a redundant pilot accepts a contract flying in North Africa. A bizarre series of events that are start when a surprised when tall Touareg on a camel calls him in vernacular Manchester English and reveals a thorough knowledge of Mike. They talk and Mike is progressively more Intrigued. Returning to Gatwick he is interviewed by some form of Government agency and is then on course with them.
He returns to Algiers to train a Dutch co-pilot, Sue Smit. She is deep, complex, and beautiful . They begin to fall in love. Her painful past is slowly revealed . Whilst flying the routes their feelings mutually intensify.
in Mallorca, on Mike’s boat, their idyll turns violent as Sue’s true mission is revealed. Returning to Algeria,world events accelerate their mission, and culminates with the key scene in the caves at Djanet, Southern Algeria, where Mike is
involved in totally unprecedented violence where he, technically, dies twice. Meanwhile, Sue is in related, action in Morocco.
Eventually after some military action in Southern Libya, Mike’s flying skills are put to the testand they are reunited