Flyaway
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Flyaway,
 
Max Stafford is a security consultant with a thriving business in the City and no immediate urge to go hairing off to Africa.

Paul Billson is an office nobody who is being paid far more than he's worth, for doing nothing much at all. Why? Is the key the fact that he is the son of Peter Billson, a fugative aviator presumed killed in an aircrash many years before?

Stafford makes an attempt to find out for the man's sister, one Alix Aarvik, and gets beaten up for his trouble.

Could it be the Paul Billson has gone in search of the never-found wreck of his fathers plane, lost in the harsh landscape of central Africa? Max Stafford decides to find out.