Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (September 2004)

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A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING DENNIS QUAID AND GIOVANNI RIBISI

"Tense, exciting ...horribly vivid." —London Evening Standard

"Trevor is extremely deft with taut thrilling novels originally and unexpectedly plotted." —London Times

"A master of showing the behavior of men under stress." —Books and Bookmen

"A master…one never doubts the absolute reality of every page he writes!" —New York Times

They are twelve men who shouldn’t be alive. They have survived the sudden blinding sandstorm that crippled their air freighter. Survived a desperate crash landing in the Sahara of Central Libya. Survived to face the slow, dry, agonizing death of the desert. Twelve men with one hope: to build a new plane from the wreckage of their Skytruck and make a flight out of hell.

Only one man could build such a plane: Stringer, the brilliant and obsessed engineer. Only one man could fly it: Towns, the arrogant and tormented pilot. Both had been aboard the Skytruck, but both are mortal enemies whose consuming hatred for each other is a danger greater than the desert itself.

About the Author: Elleston Trevor (1920-1995), who also wrote under the pseudonym Adam Hall, was born in London but lived with his family on the French Riviera for many years before moving to Arizona. He was awarded the Edgar Award for his book The Quiller Memorandum but his best-known novel is The Flight of the Phoenix.