Asher, Michael Sandstorm ISBN 13: 9781532731723

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1946. A plane crashes in the deserts of North Africa.

Fourteen-year-old Billy Sterling regains consciousness to find himself alone among the wreckage.

He soon finds the body of the pilot, a celebrated war hero, and on it a cryptic map, more like a pirate’s treasure map than a serious navigational tool.

But there is no sign of the plane’s co-pilot.

Billy is confident someone will come for him.

Someone does, but not anyone he expects...

Seven years later, a mysterious stranger contacts Billy’s grieving father, George Bridger Sterling, claiming to be the lost co-pilot.

Only a few hours later, this sinister informant is found brutally murdered.

Armed with the information that Billy’s plane did not go down where he was told it had, Sterling sets out to discover the truth.

Why did the plane take a different route?

And why was Billy on board at all?

Along with an eccentric private investigator, Eric Churchill, Sterling travels into the vast and dangerous desert, forced to rely on strangers for his own survival.

But he is not the only one still looking for Billy after all these years...

'Sandstorm' is a fast-paced and evocative thriller, full of adventure and betrayal.

Praise for the author:

‘Fast-moving, well written, endlessly exciting, The Eye of Ra excellently conjures up the atmosphere of the desert’ RICHARD BUNDY

‘One of the most impressive novels I’ve read in years. The quality of writing, the characterisation, the plot twists are all excellent. But the true brilliance of the novel is the life in the desert. A stunning achievement; a book to buy and read over and over’ DAVID V BARRETT

Michael Asher served in the Parachute Regiment and SAS. A fluent Arab speaker, he has lived for years among the Bedouin peoples. He has made expeditions in many countries, always preferring to travel on foot or with animal transport. He is also the author of ‘Shoot to Kill: From 2 Para to the SAS’.

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Review:

‘The best novel of African adventure since King Solomon’s Mines.’ Jack Higgins

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Sandstorm is a fast-paced, atmospheric thriller, set in the deserts of North Africa.

Billy Sterling regained consciousness to find himself alone in the desert. Beside him was the wreckage of a light aircraft and the corpse of the pilot. Terrified, Billy soon realised that he was stranded in a vast and hostile wilderness. He did not see the human eyes, watching him from a distance.

George Bridger Sterling persists in believing that his son, Billy, who hasn't been seen for seven years, is still alive. Then a mysterious stranger contacts him, claiming to be the co-pilot of the
crashed plane. Within hours, the man is dead. But the new hope he has provided is enough.

Travelling to a vast, dangerous desert, accompanied only by a man he barely knows, let alone trusts, Sterling must retrace the vague footsteps left nearly a decade before. But why was the plane anywhere near the Western Sahara? And why are they not the only people interested in what was on board?

‘The best novel of African adventure since King Solomon’s Mines.’ Jack Higgins on Rare Earth

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