1999, 1st edition. 255 pp. This James Bond thriller has Bond climbing Kangchenjunga to retrieve the stolen secret that will... well, who cares what the secret will do. 007 is climbing in the Himalaya, and that's all that matters. Used-New Hardcover with dust jacket.
Longer description: Skin 17 is the most important military/industrial secret of its generation. This scientific breakthrough, developed in England, will enable planes to achieve previously unattainable speeds, and outlaw nations will pay anything to get their hands on it. That's exactly what the Union, a new lethal criminal syndicate, is counting on. With the cooperation of an informant inside Her Majesty's Secret Service, Union members have stolen the secret microdot containing the formula, and left a trail of bodies in their wake.