Piers Paul Read was born in 1941 and educated at Ampleforth and Cambridge. He has published many novels and works of non-fiction and is the winner of numerous literary prizes, among them the Thomas More medal for distinguished contribution to Catholic literature for his book Alive. Reid is married with two sons and two daughters and lives in London.
Reissuing with a fantastic new look to tie-in with the 40th anniversary of the Fairchild plane crash, this is the true story of what people will do when they are desperate to survive...
