The Black Shrike

Description for THE BLACK SHRIKE by Alistair MacLean:

RESEARCH SCIENTISTS needed for rocket project overseas.  Top priority work, highest salaries.  Box 141.

Eight famous scientists answered the ad.  Eight left England for Australia.  None arrived or were heard from again.  The ninth who answered was Bentall, complete with a scientific cover and a girl named Marie, a secret agent like himself.

From the moment they were kidnapped at gunpoint from their Fiji hotel, they were plunged into a fantastic plot for world domination, played out on a secret missile site on a remote Polynesian island.