The Pass Beyond Kashmir by Berkely Mather | 1960

The Pass Beyond Kashmir

Berkely Mather

Oil all the oil in the world; on top of the bloody Himalayas! 
Start a rumour about oil being found in the most unlikely spot and theyll bite at it even if the rumour stems from the ravings of a delirious survivor of an ill-fated wartime surveying expedition to the foothills of Tibet. Years later, finding the missing papers of that expedition becomes a high priority for spies, mercenaries, oil companies and governments. 

Former army intelligence officer, unorthodox insurance assessor and freelance investigator Idwal Rees, an experienced Far Eastern hand operating out of Bombay, is drawn in to the search which soon becomes a race across India and Pakistan attempting to stay one step ahead of the opposition all the way to the pass beyond Kashmir, where the invading Chinese army and Rees personal nemesis are lying in wait. 
A decade or more before he himself became one of Britains leading thriller writers, Anthony Price wrote: You only get one or two thrillers a year if you are lucky as good as Berkely Mathers The Pass Beyond Kashmir and he was far from alone in his praise of Berkely Mather. American mystery superstar Erle Stanley Gardner said of him: This man has a remarkable gift for thrills and suspense whilst Ian Fleming put him in the small category of those adventure writers whose works I, for one, will in future buy sight unseen and insisted on Mathers appointment as one of the scriptwriters on the film Dr No.

Binding: Hard cover

Book Condition: Fair condition - a good reading copy. The spine is faded and there is a blemish on the outside of the pages where the pages were damaged

Edition: Collins 1960

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