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'Compulsively readable.' GUARDIAN

'As long as meticulous craftsmanship and honest entertainment are valued, and as long as action, authenticity, and expertise still make up the strong framework of the good adventure/thriller, Desmond Bagley's books will surely be read.' REGINALD HILL, Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers

'Bagley is a master storyteller.' DAILY MIRROR

An enormous slow-moving industrial convoy becomes a terrifying military target when civil war breaks out in a southern African state...

It was no ordinary juggernaut. Longer than a football pitch, weighing 550 tons, and moving at an average of five miles per hour, it also carries a load whose worth is almost priceless.

Its job - and that of company troubleshooter Neil Mannix - is to move a giant transformer across Nyala, an oil-rich African state. Outwardly politically stable, Nyala erupts in civil war, and Mannix finds himself, and the juggernaut, at the centre of the conflict - a target of ambush and threat, with no way to run and nowhere to hide...