James Bannerman, who must deal with a dangerous band of saboteurs in his efforts to build a tunnel beneath the English Channel in 1911, and German Lieutenant Colonel Von Dorn, who plans for the tunnel's final destruction, are both being stalked by an exiled, murderous Fenian revolutionary
Joseph John Poyer was an American author whose fiction first appeared in Analog magazine with Mission 'Red Clash' (1965). His novels include technothrillers such as Operation Malacca (1968) and North Cape (1969), and the alternate-history work Tunnel War (1979).