Machiavellian affair, the

Two Russian SS-X-25 nuclear missiles are missing. Billionaire and political intriguer Hugh X Alcock?s son, Peter, a charter pilot and covert MI6 agent, is missing.MI6, the CIA and Southern African intelligence services believe the missiles to be in Madagascar, positioned by hard-core Soviets bent on creating political mayhem.Victor Kennedy, ex-soldier skilled in guerrilla warfare, is hired by Alcock to find Peter after his plane disappears on a flight to Mauritius. When Kennedy and a Mozambican colleague find Peter they learn the appalling truth of the missing armaments.They also uncover a CIA dirty tricks campaign which, if successful, will result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of people in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique.An all too possible killing field ? for which South Africa will be blamed.