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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. -
Michael Reynolds was going insane … slowly but inevitably insane. And the most terrible part of it was that he knew it. Since the last forced injection, there had been nothing he could do about the relentless onset of this madness. The more he struggled to ignore the symptoms, the more acutely he became aware of them, the deeper into his mind dug those fiendish chemical claws that were tearing his mind apart… An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist has gone disastrously wrong... -
February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army, as the last boat slips out of the harbour into the South China Sea. On board are a desperate group of people, each with a secret to guard, each willing to kill to keep that secret safe. Who or what is the dissolute Englishman, Farnholme? The elegant Dutch planter, Van Effen? The strangely beautiful Eurasian girl, Gudrun? The slave trader, Siran? The smiling and silent Nicholson who is never without his gun? Only one thing is certain: the rotting tramp steamer is a floating death trap, carrying a cargo of human TNT. -
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. -
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. -
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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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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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. -
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.
