Alistair Maclean
BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR
- Title: Puppet On A Chain
- Description:
thriller 
- Title: The Golden Gate
- Description:
pages discoloured 
- Title: Ice Station Zebra
- Description:
In the Dolphins central control room, the men, strained and immobile, watched the plummeting needle and the depth gauge. Seven hundred feet. Seven hundred and fifty, eight hundred. Into the realms of the unknown. 
- Title: Night Without End
- Description:
From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic. An airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive. But for the members of a remote scientific research station who rescue them, there are some sinister questions to answer - the first one being, who shot the pilot before the crash? 
- Title: When Eight Bells Toll
- Description:
Adventure. 
- Title: San Andreas
- Description:
war, drama in the high seas. 
- Title: The Partisans
- Description:
The grim struggle for Europe is at it's height. The Partisans in Yugoslavia are fiercly resisting the German occupation of their homeland. 
- Title: Fear Is The Key
- Description:
A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico -- and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style. A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead -- but only after he had avenged their murders. 
- Title: Goodbye California
- Description:
Might someone have the motive - and the power - to trigger off an earthquake themselves? It is this possibility which Alistair MacLean took three years to research - and which forms the exciting and all-to-plausible theme to this book. 
- Title: San Andreas
- Description:
A tale of violence and betrayal on board the British hospital ship, "San Andreas", sailing the U-boat-patrolled Norwegian waters. There unfolds a game of sabotage, in which an unknown traitor among the crew holds all the cards and the "San Andreas" is drawn relentlessly into the enemy's hands. 
- Title: Dark Crusader
- Description:
Meet John Bentall .. When you get to know this tough, diffident guy who's honest enough to admit his mistakes you'll stay with him to the end. And with the beautiful girl who's posing as his wife. Together they embark on a 'honeymoon' voyage which turns out to be a series of disasters. They're dumped on a remote Polynesian island where, isolated and in acute danger, they have to pit their wits against a brilliant brain; a brain backed by sadistic Chinese henchmen. Slowly the terrible meaning of The Dark Crusader comes to light. 
- Title: Hms
- Description:
The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century's greatest writers of action and suspense -- an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes its place alongside The Caine Mutiny and The Cruel Sea as one of the classic novels of the navy at war. It is the compelling story of Convoy FR77 to Murmansk -- a voyage that pushes men to the limits of human endurance, crippled by enemy attack and the bitter cold of the Arctic. 
- Title: Fear Is The Key
- Description:
A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico -- and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style. A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead -- but only after he had avenged their murders. 
- Title: Force 10 From Navarone
- Description:
The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean's masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are parachuting into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of Partisans ... and to fulfil a secret mission, so deadly that it must be hidden from their own allies. 
- Title: Santorini
- Description:
In the Aegean Sea, a yacht is on fire and sinking. Minutes later, a four-engined jet with a fire in its nose-cone crashes into the sea. Is there a connection between these two tragedies? And is it an accident that the "Ariadne", a NATO spy ship, is the only ship in the vicinity - the only witness? 
- Title: Ice Station Zebra
- Description:
The Dolphin, pride of America's nuclear fleet, is the only submarine capable of attempting the rescue of a British meteorological team trapped on the polar ice cap. The officers of the Dolphin know well the hazards of such an assignment. What they do not know is that the rescue attempt is really a cover-up for one of the most desperate espionage missions of the Cold War -- and that the Dolphin is heading straight for sub-zero disaster, facing hidding sabotage, murder . . . and a deadly, invisible enemy . . . 
- Title: The Golden Rendezvous
- Description:
A timeless classic from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Aboard the SS Campari, all is not well.For Johnny Carter, the Chief Officer, the voyage has already begun badly; but it's only when the Campari sails that evening, after a succession of delays that he realises something is seriously wrong.A member of the crew is suddenly missing and the stern-to-stern search only serves to increase tension. Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is in danger. Is the Campari a victim of modern day piracy? And what of the strange cargo hidden below the decks? 
- Title: Floodgate
- Description:
Adventure story of bombing and blackmail set in Holland, a country vulnerable to flooding. In Floodgate, master storyteller Alistair MacLean draws the reader through a labyrinth of truths and false trails in a tense and compelling novel 
- Title: Santorini
- Description:
The frigate Ariadne patrols the Aegean Sea, she is the eyes and ears of NATO - a spy ship. Two tragedies occur that seem to be no accident. Commander Talbots investigations uncover a plot involving drugs and terrorism, which leads to the heart of the Pentagon.
