They called it the place of silence... the last frozen barrier between Balpur and Tibet. An icy wilderness where desperate men made a living smuggling guns across the border. Even from the bravest, the luck has to run out... On what he thought would be his last flight, Jack Drummond found his own recipe for disaster. A deadly cargo of machine guns. A band of ruthless gurrillas, and a confrontation with the Chinese Reds, leaving no chance for escape... -- back cover.