Old Enemies Michael Dobbs Simon & Schuster Ltd

In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds.

Ruari, son of Irish media owner J J Breslin, is in desperate danger, at the mercy of ruthless kidnappers making impossible demands.

His terrified mother contacts the only person she knows can help her son: