During the war, Iain Ross had been disgraced, and then drowned at sea -- or so his family believed. But a curious mission takes his brother Donald to the Hebrides to meet a Major Braddock, and he finds the man who was once his brother living a...
Michael Randall is a man in a hurry. Desperate to succeed, he seeks his fortune in the oil sands far beneath the North Sea.
At the story's center is the North Star, an obsolete and dangerous drilling platform anchored precariously off...