Publisher's Synopsis
 
Hi-jacked at gunpoint, veteran pilot Tim O'Hara is forced to land his chartered Dakota on a hopelessly inadequate air-strip amid the towering peaks of the Andes. Using all his considerable skill he averts total disaster, but as the surviving passengers crawl from the wreckage into the intense cold and the rarefied atmosphere at 16,000 feet they wonder if escape from the crash is merely a prelude to a more protracted death.  The hazardous descent is a grim test of endurance, yet reaching the valley they find a new and even greater menace awaiting them....... 'High Citadel' is a taught, fast-moving story set against a background of seething political and unrest in the tiny state of Cordillera and the inadvertent involvement of the air crash survivors, one of whom is a popular ex-president, returned from exile to lead his people to freedom. In this gripping tale, we follow the fortunes and misfortunes of an ill-assorted group of people, and their agonising dilemma when they must choose between their own safety and the life of the ageing ex-president.
 
The Companion Book Club; 1965. This edition is issued by arrangement with William Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd., London. Hardcover with unclipped dust cover. Club price to members only 5/9. Dust cover sunned to spine. Chipped to edges and small piece missing to top spine. Previous owners name to FFEP and first paste down. Some foxing to page edges. Binding tight and text clean. Preowned. No ISBN.