About this ebook
One man’s disappearance could signal the beginning of WWIII in this military mystery thriller from an acclaimed author and former Royal Air Force pilot.
After a spectacular career as an airman, Group Captain Gavin Gallagher became the Commanding Officer of the most powerful nuclear rocket station in the world. Then he vanished without a trace. One day, he left the Zeus launching pads to return home to his wife . . . and never arrived.
From the Provost Marshal’s office, Wing Commander Henderson is tasked with investigating the mystery before it erupts into a national emergency. Has Gallagher been kidnapped, or has he ‘gone over’? Could he have been murdered? And what clues can be found in his past: his rise from wing undergraduate to war hero, to one of the few top men who literally hold the key to human survival?Ratings and reviews
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About the author
David Beaty was a former RAF pilot, novelist and non-fiction writer whose books about flying earned him worldwide reputation.
Born in Ceylon in 1919, Beaty was educated at Kingswood, Bath and Merton College, Oxford. He became an RAF pilot during WWII, where he excelled, but gave up a life in the Air Force to write full-time. However, his experiences informed his many novels. In 1960, Cone of Silence was made into a film starring Peter Cushing and George Sanders. He was on the staff of the College of Air Training, was an associate member of the British Airline Pilots’ Association, and a Companion of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
