Flight time from London to Sydney- ninety minutes. Sabre 005, a synergetic, air-breathing rocket engine, that will revolutionise air travel as the world knows it. Paul Santos, a French engineer, developed the aircraft. A jet in the atmosphere and a rocket in space, Sabre 005 is set for its first ever commercial test flight - and its fare-paying passengers are already scheduled for one year's time. Joe Yavanoski, a union boss forced to retire, knows the threat Sabre 005 poses. Its success will spell the death of his country's former great aircraft industry and the loss of hundred of thousand of jobs, including that of top engineer Jean Lesseps. Together, Yavanoski and Lesseps hatch a plan to shatter the public's confidence forever - the perfect undetectable bomb that will wipe out Sabre 005, its passengers and its crew, once and for all. All they have to do is get on board . . .
- ISBN10 0749322586
- ISBN13 9780749322588
- Publish Date 6 November 1997 (first published 11 November 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Mandarin
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English