Rogue Hercules

Book info: Rogue Hercules (Hardcover, 188 pages – Atheneum Publishers, 1978) – Atheneum Publishers, 1978. Language: Eng.

The rogue Hercules aircraft, a giant veteran American transport plane, will be taking off from Karachi airport illegally. She is improperly certified and outrageously over-loaded; her flight plan is spurious, her cargo illicit and her destination criminal. Carrying a shipment of arms to Rhodesia, Captain Martin Gore knows that he will be unable to make any stops on this last and most dangerous leg of the journey along the hostile east coast of Africa. These are the known dangers, and they are enough to make Captain Gore very nervous indeed - nervous enough to take the boss's girlfriend along as hostage and insurance of payment.