Paul Sherman of Interol's Narcotics Bureau flies to Amsterdam on the trail of a dope king...



With enormous skill the atmosphere is built up: Amsterdam with its canals and high houses; stolid police; psychopaths; beautiful girls in distress; and murder, murder, murder. Everything that Alistair Maclean writes is an immediate bestseller. With this book, he will make another killing.

Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.