On a bright September morning in 1939 two days after Britain has declared war a group of privileged but desperate people gather in Southampton to board the largest most luxurious airliner ever built
- the Pan American Clipper bound for New York: an English aristocrat fleeing with his family & a fortune in jewels; a German scientist escaping from the Nazis; a murderer under FBI escort; a young wife running away from a domineering husband; & a handsome unscrupulous thief.. .' Master of the romantic thriller' Daily Telegraph ' The opulent interior of the first airliner on a transatlantic flight from England to New York in war-darkened 1939 is the setting for Follett's high-flying caper guaranteed to hold the reader in their seat.. .the master of epic suspense spins an excruciatingly taut drama a whirlwind of romance & intrigue.. . His best since Eye of the Needle' Publishers Weekly