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The sequel to The Guns of Navarone. Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are parachuting into war-torn Yugoslavia on a mission to ostensibly rescue a division of trapped partisans. In fact, it is to convince the Germans that a major Allied assault on Yugoslavia is imminent and thus draw troops from the Italian front. Helped - and sometimes hindered - by a trio of Commando sergeants and a blind folk singer and his sister, the three need all the courage, darling and special techniques to accomplish their dual objective. -
In wartime, people are either friends of enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die. When Tito's rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction. The German High Command masterminds a strategy which will annihilate the partisan resistance. Three Yugoslavs set out to relay the German battle plan to the pro-German Yugoslav Royalists - but where do their loyalties lie? It's a d dangerous journey with dangerous companions, where no one is who they seem...and where the three men find intrigue and betrayal around every corner... -
Provence: the annual pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries of gypsies from all over Europe. The Duc de Croytor, distinguished folklorist, is there and so is Englishman Neil Bowman, for no apparent reason. But there is something different about this year's pilgrimage. A small group of gypsies have something they are determined to hide, and Bowman soon learns that curiosity is highly dangerous.Before long, he is on the run for his life. -
According to the Geneva Convention, red crosses on a ship guarantee immunity from enemy attack. The San Andreas is a hospital ship but the crew do not trust the night lights or the red crosses to keep her safe - and they do not trust the enemy U-boats. Suddenly, the the hour before dawn, the ship's power is cut. The lights go out. Someone on board the British hospital ship is intent on sabotage...Cover art by Paul Wright. -
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is under floodwater. Aircraft are trapped and silent. A sinister terrorist group, the FFF has caused this chaos. It is determined to demonstrate the destruction it can cause by blowing up strategically placed dykes and reduce the Netherlands to a state of helplessness and open to blackmail. It is Lieutenant Peter Van Effen's mission to sabotage their plans. Using his specialist knowledge in explosives and the help of his friends, flamboyant George and young Vasco, Van Effen must infiltrate the FFF. -
Too many things had been going wrong in too many Formula One races. Johnny Harlow, world champion driver and apparent cause of the latest accident, decides the time has come to sort things out - and what he finds has nothing to do with cars. -
One winter night seven men and one girl are parachuted onto a mountainside in war-time Germany. The objective - an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo, to which a crashed VIP American general has been taken for interrogation...Or is this audacious rescue the sole reason for the expedition. A literal cliff hanger from MacLean.
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Bear Island is known as the wartime graveyard of the Arctic where Nazi submarines lay in wait for Murmansk convoys. As the charter ship Morning Rose sails toward the island, the doctor on board, Christopher Marlowe, is kept busy tending his sea sick patients - the members of a film unit who are to make a film on Bear Island, a project so secret that none of them know much about it. Then another malady attacks - and in some cases proves fatal. But there is something unnatural about the illness and its selection of victims. There is a murderer on board - and Marlowe knows he's on the elimination list. Someone in the film unit is intent on preventing Marlowe and the others from learning the secret of the island, and what lays beyond the Gates of Pearl.
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As a colleague burns to a cinder, trapped in the cockpit of his machine, world champion racing driver and apparent cause of the accident Johnny Harlow made a far-reaching decision. Too many things had been going wrong in too many races and this latest death made Harlow realise it was time to sort things out. Some aggressive detective work shows there's plenty of trouble stirring beneath the the busy surface of the racing scene and there are one or two people who will stop at nothing to prevent him discovering the details.
