The Black Shrike Author:Alister MacLean Bentall, a British physicist seconded for intelligence duties, is suddenly recalled to London from a mission involving the theft of information about British missiles. His boss has a new assignment for him that that involves partnering with a female agent, Marie Hopeman, and travel to the South Seas. Neither the female agent nor the travel are q... more »uite as they seem. The plot becomes even more complicated when Bentall and Hopeman finally arrive at the missile test range in the South Pacific and find themselves falling in love even as they try to unravel a plot to steal highly classified missile technology.« less