Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Malta.
The Scarperers, a brilliantly organised gang which gets long-term inmates out of prison, spring a notorious Russian double agent. The trail leads Owen Stannard to Malta, and to the suave killer masterminding the gang. Face to face at last with his opponents, Stannard must try to outwit both men - who have nothing to lose and everything to gain by his death...
- ISBN10 0060806923
- ISBN13 9780060806927
- Publish Date 1 April 1984 (first published 4 October 1971)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harper Perennial
- Edition Perennial Library ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 222
- Language English