The Most Dangerous Game

'Cary is great with a gun and deadpan about danger' Spectator

Bill Cary makes a precarious living flying aerial surveys over Lapland. When he's hired by a wealthy American hunter, Frederick Wells Homer, to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border, the job seems shady indeed, and when a major crook wants him to go on the hunt for Tsarist treasure, things get messy. With thugs and the Finnish Secret Service already on his tail, matters get worse when Homer's beautiful sister turns up to search for him, and Cary's fellow bush pilots start getting killed off in a series of suspicious accidents. Cary begins to realise that it may all stem from an incident in his wartime past.

The Most Dangerous Game was shortlisted for the British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award.

'A glorious tale, vivid in character and escapade' Book Week

“Lyall has produced a model of the breathtaking narrative in The Most Dangerous Game…[he] writes with zest and bite; he is a master of the rare art of storytelling.” —New York Times Book Review

“A glorious tale, vivid in character and escapade.” —Book Week

“Carey is great with a gun and deadpan about danger as he weaves through prohibited territory, eluding bears and crooks and radar in his beat-up old aeroplane.” —The Spectator