She stood between Sam Durell and his grim search for a US space pilot, downed behind the Iron Curtain; standing beside Lissa, the girl who had breathed life into his pain-racked body, Adam stared at the tragic, twisted remains of the once-shiny space vehicle which had taken him to the stars; its streaked, heat-rusted metal, cracked and cratered, made Adam shiver with the memory of his rendezvous with death and his horror of the perils which lay ahead; he was isolated in a tiny mountain village, surrounded by Communist police and he could trust only Lissa, the woman who had sacrificed her body to a savage lover in order to save Adam's life: this was the man they'd sent Durell to find.

Genre: Mystery