Backlash

By Antony Melville Ross

THE ASSIGNMENT: to kill a double agent on the run.
LOCATIONS: London, New York and the Colombian jungle.

Antony Melville-Ross was born in Hastings, East Sussex on November 11 1920. His grandfather, first cousin to the author of Moby Dick, was an explorer, and his father, among other things, was a test pilot. Antony published six novels between 1978 and 1985, all inspired by his background as a sub-mariner in the Second World War. He had an extremely successful career in the navy, rose to command his own boat and transferred into the Secret Service after the end of the war. He died in his hometown on January 10 1993, aged 73.