Alistair Maclean Golden Girl

Summary

THEY WANT HIM DEAD-THIRTEEN YEARS OLD,BEARER OF A LETHAL SECRET A plane crashes,carrying a cargo of cocaine-the pilot dead,no witnesses,except a boy fishing for lobster.The boy buries the cocaine,terror keeps him silent. So begins Simon Gandolfi's exceptional thriller.Set in the Caribbean,WHITE SANDSis full of extraordinary characters:Jacket Bride,the thirteen-year-old boy with a fantastic dream in his heart,and a lethal secret in his head.Skelley,the island police chief with an implacable loathing for drug runners.Charity,the formidable schoolteacher. And ex-British intelligence agent Trent,who leaves his catamaran GOLDEN GIRL to help in an operation where one person alone holds the key:a child with an adult secret,hunted for his life.