“Book Descriptions:The Head was shaped by one of the world’s greatest sculptors, in a quiet Spanish village near the Sierra Nevada … So near that, from his studio window, he could see the high mountain-peak where the statue was destined to be placed.
And when his work was at last completed, another task was begun. The task of carrying his statue to the peak, over three thousand feet of snow-covered mountainside.
Coincidence – and an urge for self-advertisement – brought him a strangely assorted bunch of helpers; among them the village mayor and the village priest, a London newspaperman and a Spanish film star. Not to mention Johnny Fedora, who came to the village just in time to tag along “just for the ride …”
The Head was a masterpiece - but it brought them trouble. Trouble and disaster. For, though Johnny was a late arrival, he wasn’t the last of he found that death was climbing the mountain, too …” DRIVE