The Flight of the Phoenix » (Unabridged, 7 CDs, 9 hours)

During his prolific career of more than 50 years, Elleston Trevor (born Trevor-Dudley Smith) published more than 100 books including thrillers, mysteries, plays, short stories, and juvenile novels. His best-known characters were the indestructible British agent Quiller, from the popular series of novels that he wrote under the name Adam Hall, and crime-solver extraordinaire Hugo Bishop, whose adventures he penned as Simon Rattray. He was the recipient of the Edgar® Award and a Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in 1966 for his novel Quiller Memorandum, which was also adapted to film and later inspired a classic British television series.

No way out ...

Twelve men survived the crash when a blinding, unexpected sandstorm sent their Skytruck air freighter plummeting to the Earth. Now they are in Hell, stranded and alone in the empty wastes of the Sahara, facing a slow, agonizing death under the unrelenting Libyan sun. Two of them have the skills to avert a terrible fate: the brilliant, obsessed engineer Stringer, and the tormented pilot Towns. Bitter enemies, they must now work together to build an impossible dream from the wreckage and fly it to freedom ... if madness, rage, suspicion, and the merciless desert don't destroy them first.

This is a story so riveting it inspired two major motion pictures -- the memorable 1965 film starring Jimmy Stewart and the 2004 film starring Dennis Quaid.