Message from Malaga

Sunny Spain, sudden death!

Ian Ferrier, on vacation from the U.S. Space Agency would not have believed his reunion with a trusted friend would lead to murder, or that he would hold the key for a vicious conspiracy of assassination, or that he would be plunged into a desperate pursuit in which he was as much the hunted as the hunter. Yet that is the opening of this spellbinding tale set in the deceptively serene and vividly picturesque cities of Málaga and Granada.

For him Spain meant dancing girls, guitars, lazy days in the sun and a reunion with an old friend. It all looked so innocent, but it wasn't.

Helen MacInnes has fashioned a strikingly new, intriguingly intricate and breathless adventure with the lives of many in the balance and the security of nations at stake. As always, her story concept and thematic conflicts are built upon current factual evidence. The methods and mechanics of the intelligence groups are as modern as tomorrow. The authoritarian lust for power and the warp of treason are timeless.

Hundreds of thousands of readers, whose enthusiasm made The Salzburg Connection the most popular novel,of 1968, have awaited this celebrated author's next work. They will find Message from Málaga irresistible and Helen MacInnes at her superb best.