Hutchinson, London, 1983, 1^st.  ISBN 0-09-151400-2.  Hard cover, 237 pages.  Near fine; spine head bumped; dust jacket with price intact has light edge and cover wear; interior clean and unmarked.  ‘Germany has lost the war.  On a remote polar weather station, the Nazis have been developing the V3 – with Jewish scientists and slave labour.  On instructions from Hitler all personnel are eliminated.  But one man escapes with the secret …   Forty years later on a remote Arctic ice cap, antennae twitch, radio signals bleep, ice-flows crack.  From a hidden Russian silo a rocket lifts off, but inexplicably nose-dives into the sea. … A Russian Grand Master must appear to defect in a submarine in order to discover how an independent European satellite agency is re-using a polar weather station to control and develop international defence systems.’ (from front flap)