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No Highway

Nevil Shute author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Sep '09

Should be back in stock very soon

No Highway cover

EXCITEMENT and SUSPENSE 18,000 Feet Over the Atlantic!

Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost.

Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war.

Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost.

No Highway is a novel which engages the heart and grips the mind * Evening Standard *
Shute was a brilliant storyteller and terrific example for any writer * Express *
Mr Shute is a storyteller in the tradition of R.L Stevenson and Kipling * Evening News *
That shattering, unaffected literary style..masterly

ISBN: 9780099530091

Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 20mm

Weight: 234g

336 pages