New York: McGraw-Hill, (1978) dj. Hardcover - The author's first novel, an international espionage thriller. "On a May night in 1968, the plane carrying the French Chief of Staff General Ailleret explodes over the island of Runion in the Indian Ocean, killing all aboard except for one. Four years later, writer Charles Stone is drawn irresistibly into the mystery that still surrounds the General's death." 247 pp. ISBN: 0-070548609.