The Lonely Skier

High among the Dolomite Mountains a film crew led by a madman will risk their lives for Nazi gold in this death-defying thriller.. Out of work out of money and out of time Neil Blair is wandering through Piccadilly Circus when he stumbles upon the chance of a lifetime. He meets an old army buddy a half–con man half-genius film producer who offers him a job. Suddenly Blair is off to the Dolomites for three months to work on the script for a film that will be unlike anything the cinema has ever seen: a thriller entirely based in truth every word steeped in blood.   Ostensibly the film is to be a skiing picture but Blair soon learns there’s much more at stake than a bit of sport. Beneath the mountain ice is a fortune in Nazi gold which the producer will find—or die trying. Blair’s task is to document that hunt on the page but he’s about to be trapped in a battle of wits that could destroy him before he types a single word.   Shot through with the atmospheric tension that was Hammond Innes’s trademark The Lonely Skier is a terrifying story of murder and deception at the edge of the world.