Published in 1980. The cover looks slightly worn – see photos. The inside looks like it has not been read much. Pages have yellowed and slightly turned up on the top right corner, but no dog ears.
An old man waiting to die…
A woman living in eternal fear…
A pilot without a plane…
And a stranger without a soul.
They had nothing in common but the will to survive.
In a remote Catholic mission in the northern desert of Kenya, 250 Somali boys and a motley handful of Europeans find themselves encircled by hostile guerillas. Suddenly they are pawns in the latest deadly power struggle between East and West – and in a bloody conflict of ageless tribal savagery.
For Brother Salvatore, the mission’s founder, a terrifying ordeal lies ahead. And only one man can prevent the destruction of everything he has built and fought for. That man is known as Chance – a solitary British agent trained in the godless creed of kill-or-be-killed…
