Used paperback in fair condition. Cover and pages showing minimal wear. Back cover badly creased from top to bottom. Rubber stamp on flyleaf and ink signature on title page. 128 pages. Published by New English Library, 1973. ISBN 0450015823.

They said the submarine was on its way to the famous Empty Desert Naval Museum. But why was it carrying missiles? And why was it being hauled across a desert with the same tenacity that built the pyramids?

The reasons suddenly became horrifyingly clear and the private army of Colonel Tobin, the smallest and toughest mercenary force in the world, was sent to destroy it.

Suave, correct, every inch the British businessman, Tobin's word was law and his orders were obeyed without question. It was the only way to run his men in this kind of mission.