The Eye of the Tornado

by Chapman Pincher

The Deadliest ransom...
The hijacking of the KSV Mallard, a small ship on her regular run between Faslane in Scotland abd Portsmouth, was the beginning of the most terrifying national crisis in Britain's history. For the hijackers were fanatical terrorists - and the Mallard's cargo consisted of primed Polaris nuclear warheads.
The newly elected government, headed by Britain's first woman Prime Minister, were in a desperate dilemma. The hijackers were threatening to detonate the missiles and poison the country with radioactive fallout, yet they made no demands. Them, as tension mounted, the real truth began to emerge. The terrorists were themselves being manipulated by a greater power - a power that jeopardized the very existence of Britain as an independent nation...

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 24, 1976

About the author

Harry Chapman Pincher was an Indian-born British journalist, historian, and novelist whose writing mainly focused on espionage and related matters, after some early books on scientific subjects.

Harry Chapman Pincher was born in India in 1914 while his father was serving in the British Army. After moving to Great Britain, Chapman Pincher studied first at Darlington Grammar School and then King's College London before entering the teaching profession. He served in the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War and then embarked upon a lengthy and successful career in journalism, joining the Daily Express as a science and defence correspondent. Famed for his exposés, he was regarded as one of the finest investigative reporters of the twentieth century. Chapman Pincher penned a number of books both non-fiction and fiction and was the author of the notorious Their Trade is Treachery. Prior to his death he lived in West Berkshire with his wife, Billee.