Storm from the South

By Peter Bailey
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Published: Sep. 26, 2011
Words: 156,305 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465934307

Short description

Private morality triumphs over international inertia and bigotry

Extended description

Shipping correspondent Stuart Darnley is recalled to London from an assignment in New York and sent with cub-reporter Lesley Wainwright to Tokyo to discover what he can of a new propulsion unit fitted to a closely guarded merchant ship.

The assignment seems straightforward until his company’s Japanese representative is murdered in the dockyard and Darnley finds himself drugged and imprisoned on the ship he is sent to investigate.

Taken to Antarctica with Lesley, they meet the brilliant, if reclusive Professor Maynard Robinson, a man wanted by the American CIA for absconding with nuclear engine plans, data and hardware belonging to the Livermore Laboratories. The US President wants the professor returned to continue his work for the benefit of America and himself. (Read more) Shipping correspondent Stuart Darnley is recalled to London from an assignment in New York and sent with cub-reporter Lesley Wainwright to Tokyo to discover what he can of a new propulsion unit fitted to a closely guarded merchant ship.

The assignment seems straightforward until his company’s Japanese representative is murdered in the dockyard and Darnley finds himself drugged and imprisoned on the ship he is sent to investigate.

Taken to Antarctica with Lesley, they meet the brilliant, if reclusive Professor Maynard Robinson, a man wanted by the American CIA for absconding with nuclear engine plans, data and hardware belonging to the Livermore Laboratories. The US President wants the professor returned to continue his work for the benefit of America and himself.

Darnley discovers that Professor Robinson has formed a vigilante group dedicated to the total destruction of the world’s nuclear and mass destruction weapons. The price Darnley is asked to pay for the release of him and Lesley is to cover and report a vigilante raid to destroy a road convoy of illegally acquired intercontinental missiles making its way from Russia to Afghanistan. A fanatical religious fundamentalist group threatens to use them against the West. The Americans know nothing of this plan until told by Lesley, a secret CIA sleeper activated to find Professor Robinson. Darnley reluctantly accepts the offer.

Forced to fly to Afghanistan with armed vigilantes the group locates the sixty-one-vehicle convoy and decides to attack it.

The first ambush fails and the second attempt is only partially successful with the vigilantes suffering many casualties in an unexpected landslide.

With the vigilante leader and many of his men dead, a bigoted Australian pilot takes matters into his own hands.

Belatedly warned of the danger by Lesley, America launches missiles at the convoy.
A nuclear explosion destroys the convoy, but with Russia also desperate to stop the convoy no country is willing to accept responsibility. Was the explosion caused by the Americans, the Russians, a rogue convoy missile, or by the attackers own nuclear engines going critical?
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