Jack Clay, an ex-Royal Air Force pilot, makes a threadbare living flying charter cargos of dubious legitimacy around the Mediterranean. Time catching up with him, and financial stability nowhere to be seen, his dreams of owning an airplane and his own chartering company are as distant as ever. All this changes in Athens when Clay bumps into an old war-time buddy, who is now helping the former Nawab of Tungabhadra recover his stolen fortune. Clay joins the hunt, but he is not the only one looking; there are many men-and women-who are prepared to lie and cheat, murder and maim, in order to get to the diamonds first?First published in 1961, The Wrong Side of the Sky was Gavin Lyall's debut novel and became an international bestseller.