Night Without End

Night Without End

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

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?
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Ice Station Zebra

Ice Station Zebra

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

The nuclear submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: Sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of research station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere within the Arctic Circle. But the orders can't prepare the crew for what they'll find if their mission is successful—that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage and one of the survivors is a killer...“Tense, terrifying . . . moves at a breathless pace."—Daily Express“A thoroughly professional cliff-hanger."—Sunday Telegraph
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The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

Twelve hundred British soldiers are isolated and waiting to die on the small island of Kheros, off the Turkish coast. Their lives can be saved if only the long-range, large-caliber, and catastrophically accurate guns of Navarone are silenced before the British Royal Navy arrives.Manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians, Navarone is a grim iron fortress perched high atop an island ringed by cliffs. Captain Keith Mallory and his small, handpicked team of saboteurs must scale the sheer cliffs and infiltrate the German base to blow up the massive guns.“Action sustained at high pitch. From the outset, there is a feeling of suspense . . . an insistently gripping tale."—Scotsman“Its strength comes from the speed of its narrative, its vivid creation of tensions, and its power in handling descriptions of action."—Evening Standard
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The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

Twelve hundred British soldiers are isolated and waiting to die on the small island of Kheros, off the Turkish coast. Their lives can be saved if only the long-range, large-caliber, and catastrophically accurate guns of Navarone are silenced before the British Royal Navy arrives.Manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians, Navarone is a grim iron fortress perched high atop an island ringed by cliffs. Captain Keith Mallory and his small, handpicked team of saboteurs must scale the sheer cliffs and infiltrate the German base to blow up the massive guns.“Action sustained at high pitch. From the outset, there is a feeling of suspense . . . an insistently gripping tale."—Scotsman“Its strength comes from the speed of its narrative, its vivid creation of tensions, and its power in handling descriptions of action."—Evening Standard
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Night Without End

Night Without End

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

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?
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Ice Station Zebra

Ice Station Zebra

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

The nuclear submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: Sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of research station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere within the Arctic Circle. But the orders can't prepare the crew for what they'll find if their mission is successful—that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage and one of the survivors is a killer...“Tense, terrifying . . . moves at a breathless pace."—Daily Express“A thoroughly professional cliff-hanger."—Sunday Telegraph
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Force 10 From Navarone n-2

Force 10 From Navarone n-2

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

Fresh from destroying the fabled guns of Navarone, Keith Mallory, Dusty Miller, and the ever-lethal Andrea are sent on another improbable assignment: saving 7,000 Yugoslav Partisans who face annihilation by massed German tanks. Off to the Balkans they fly, accompanied by a trio of young commandos. As they attempt to contact the Partisan forces and stop the German onslaught, this elite squad encounter treachery and violence… as well as help from locals working both openly and clandestinely to stem the Axis tide. Can that aid help them overcome fantastic odds and accomplish their unlikely goal before time runs out?
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Bear Island

Bear Island

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

Reissue of the classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location filming, but the script is a secret known only to the producer and screenwriter. En route, members of the movie crew and ship's company begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The crew's doctor, Marlowe, finds himself enmeshed in a violent, multi-layered plot in which very few of the persons aboard are whom they claim to be. Marlowe's efforts to unravel the plot become even more complicated once the movie crew is deposited ashore on Bear Island, beyond the reach of the law or outside help. The murders continue ashore, and Marlowe, who is not what he seems to be either, discovers they may be related to some forgotten events of the Second World War.
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Floodgate

Floodgate

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

Reissue of the tense tale of a deadly terrorist plot set Holland, from the acclaimed master of action and suspenseAMSTERDAM AIRPORT HAS DISAPPEAREDBLACKMAILThe mass of water in its place is the work of the FFF - an Irish terrorist group who want to force Britain's hand.SUBTERFUGEThe Dutch call in Detective Lieutenant van Effen - feared interrogator and undercover intimate of the criminal Krakers gang - to sabotage the FFF's plan.DISASTERIf van Effen fails and the FFF get control of the vital dyke, either Holland will sink beneath the sea or Britain will be awash with blood.
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The Golden Gate

The Golden Gate

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense. A ROLLING FOR KNOX is how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI believe it is impregnable ? as it has to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard. But halfway across the bridge the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world a master criminal pulls off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times?
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The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier

Alistair MacLean

Mystery & Thrillers / Biographies & Memoirs / Short Stories

Doctor Jennings, a scientist in possession of a precious secret, has gone over to the Soviet Union, and British secret agent Michael Reynolds must get him back. Penetrating the Iron Curtain is difficult, but to bring out a man who is elderly and well-known seems impossible in the face of the secret police—until Reynolds discovers there are Hungarian patriots ready to help.
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