"Grips the reader . . . The story has pace and excitement, unforced sentiment and wholly unaffected gaiety." - "Times Literary Supplement"
"He knows how to build a story mounting page by page in suspense . . . a thriller if ever there was one, and a classic thriller at that." - "New York Times"
"Admirably written . . . full of drama and good humour." - "Evening Standard"
As wartime assignments go, Jerry Chambers doesn't have it too bad. By day he flies routine patrols over the English Channel, leaving his nights free for drinking and dancing with his girlfriend, the lovely...

"Keeps you pegging away, page after page, unwilling to put the book down." - "New York Times"
"Mr. Shute knows how to pick astonishing stories and how to keep them moving on non-stop tracks." - "New Republic"
"Excellent entertainment, varied and unusual." - Basil Davenport, "Saturday Review of Literature"
Donald Ross is a young pilot, out of work and in desperate need of a job. So, despite the extreme danger involved, he jumps at the chance to fly Oxford professor Cyril Lockwood and his daughter Alix to the frozen wilds of Greenland to study Viking ruins. But the perils of the...