Wings of Death: An Alex Swan Mystery

A ruthless act of sabotage with no regard for collateral damage!

It's the mid-1960s, and the Cold War is hotting up.

Dubbed by the press as the Silver Angel, the BR-101 Rapier, is the latest warplane prototype being produced for the Royal Air Force by Brinton Aviation, one of the many companies leading the world in aircraft engineering and design.

Controversy is already surrounding the project, as overrunning development costs and competition from an American rival are causing the new recently-elected British government to consider cancelling the Rapier.

At the plant, a young aircraft designer working on the Rapier has been killed under suspicious circumstances, and his fiancée wants answers. She travels to London to visit Alex Swan, former intelligence officer with MI5, now a troubleshooter for the Ministry of Defence. With him is his colleague Arthur Gable, a recently retired Scotland Yard detective.

Swan takes up an investigation learning that a US backed company are at the plant working on a new reconnaissance drone, called the Python Hawk. Heading up the company is Frank Maitland, and his staff are being watched over by armed US Marines.

Further incidents occur centred around the Rapier. The second prototype soon to have its first flight is suddenly involved in a transport accident on the way to the test airfield and key personnel are being mysteriously shadowed.

At first, Swan and Gable are puzzled, but later, suspect there could be a possible sabotage plot — a plot which they will soon discover is linked to a secret society dating back to George Washington and the Revolutionary War.

On their agenda, is murder, espionage and a plan to create a catastrophic blow to the British aviation industry.

Moving in the slipstream of the classic fast-paced spy adventures of Alistair Maclean, Jack Higgins and Craig Thomas, Wings of Death, introduces Ministry of Defence special investigator, Alex Swan, and will have readers strapped tightly to their ejector seats for a thrilling flight of Cold War fiction.

Praise for Wings of Death-‘Filled with intrigue and suspense.’-Tom Kasey.