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ORDEAL
For Sandra Wilcox, the job of ferrying around Mr. B. as he bargained for and bought jewellery from the Navajo Indians, was routine. She was at home with these people, having been brought up with them since childhood, and the little Cessna 172 was as easy to pilot from trading post to township as driving a car. She was quite enjoying the company of the shrewd buyer from New York, too, though she wished he wasn't quite so casual about displaying his satchel of cash-containing, she estimated, about half a million in dollars, all in twenties, fifties, and hundreds. Her misgivings, as it turned out, were justified, as the money had been spotted by the wrong pair of eyes...
If she hadn't been preoccupied with the break-up of her engagement, Sandra might have reported her suspicions to the tribal police. But she didn't, and when the Cessna crashed into the Navajo desert in a storm, neither she nor the police rescue party realized that others were also setting off to find the crashed plane-and the money.. Against a background of the spectacular Navajo country, the Gordons bring alive a people ca between sharply conflicting cultures and, as in their recent successful novels, Night before the Wedding and The Informant, they spotlight a terrorized human being, an innocent girl caught up in a criminal situation completely beyond her control.
THE GORDONS
The husband and wife team of The Gordons (Mildred and Gordon) has written nineteen very successful novels. Their Operation Terror was the basis for the film classic, Experiment in Terror, in which Glenn Ford played FBI Agent Ripley, and they have also written three novels about FBI Agent X-14 (otherwise a large black cat called D. C. Randall), the first of which was filmed by Walt Disney as That Darn Cat. Other novels include Power Play, Night before the Wedding, The Informant, Case File FBI and FBI Story. Translated into many languages, their books have sold more than fourteen million copies. Both started their careers in journal- ism, and Gordon served three years as an FBI counter-espionage agent, from which stems the realism of their FBI novels. Former Arizonans who know the Navajo country of Ordeal well, they now live in a hilltop home in California.
For Sandra Wilcox, the job of ferrying around Mr. B. as he bargained for and bought jewellery from the Navajo Indians, was routine. She was at home with these people, having been brought up with them since childhood, and the little Cessna 172 was as easy to pilot from trading post to township as driving a car. She was quite enjoying the company of the shrewd buyer from New York, too, though she wished he wasn't quite so casual about displaying his satchel of cash-containing, she estimated, about half a million in dollars, all in twenties, fifties, and hundreds. Her misgivings, as it turned out, were justified, as the money had been spotted by the wrong pair of eyes...
If she hadn't been preoccupied with the break-up of her engagement, Sandra might have reported her suspicions to the tribal police. But she didn't, and when the Cessna crashed into the Navajo desert in a storm, neither she nor the police rescue party realized that others were also setting off to find the crashed plane-and the money.. Against a background of the spectacular Navajo country, the Gordons bring alive a people ca between sharply conflicting cultures and, as in their recent successful novels, Night before the Wedding and The Informant, they spotlight a terrorized human being, an innocent girl caught up in a criminal situation completely beyond her control.
THE GORDONS
The husband and wife team of The Gordons (Mildred and Gordon) has written nineteen very successful novels. Their Operation Terror was the basis for the film classic, Experiment in Terror, in which Glenn Ford played FBI Agent Ripley, and they have also written three novels about FBI Agent X-14 (otherwise a large black cat called D. C. Randall), the first of which was filmed by Walt Disney as That Darn Cat. Other novels include Power Play, Night before the Wedding, The Informant, Case File FBI and FBI Story. Translated into many languages, their books have sold more than fourteen million copies. Both started their careers in journal- ism, and Gordon served three years as an FBI counter-espionage agent, from which stems the realism of their FBI novels. Former Arizonans who know the Navajo country of Ordeal well, they now live in a hilltop home in California.