Flight into Terror

Dal Brandon is a man on the verge of leaving his wife. He's tired of his life and plans to leave for Chicago. He's minding his own business when a stranger steps up to him on the street and asks for a light. Dal gets out his lighter-and all hell breaks loose. The stranger is shot dead and Dal is slugged. From there on in the action never lets up for a second; it's fast-moving entertainment all the way.

In Lionel White's "Flight into Terror," Dal Brandon, an ordinary man, stumbles upon a briefcase containing $100,000. When his wife is murdered, Dal, already planning to leave her, decides to use the money to track down her killers and avenge her death. The plot thickens as a pretty woman with revolutionary plans, a doubting policeman, and other questionable characters enter the mix, making Dal's journey a dangerous one.

The New York Times reviewed Lionel White's Flight into Terror as a "forgotten classic" and praised him as "the master of the big caper".