Viper's Game - Softcover

Robert Rostand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099140101 ISBN 13: 9780099140108

Publisher: Arrow Bks., 1977

Synopsis

Weary of a long list of contract security jobs, and still haunted by the suicide of a young woman on the recent Australia-bound aircraft he was riding as sky marshal, Locken heads for a tranquil tropical island to heal up...... only to find himself caught up in a home-grown terrorist uprising targeting the small international community scattered near the island's seedy main port. Swinging into action, Locken assembles a throw-together team including an ex-Marine with a drug problem, an ageing Aussie combat veteran, and a mix of odd-bods including an obstructive American counsel and a pair of resourceful missionaries with plenty of local savvy.Together, for better or worse, they set off on their obstacle-littered run across the island toward the only airport, first by battered school bus then via rickety narrow-gauge sugar train -- fighting off pursuing terrorist gunmen along the way who want them dead plus a club wielding, cargo-cult hill clan who want their every possession...... to find a worn-out twin-engined Avro, the single remaining aircraft that can transport all of them to safety. That is, if its drunken and nerve-shattered former pilot can remember what he was once made of.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arrow Bks.
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099140101
• ISBN 13: 9780099140108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 267