Alistair MacLean

//Alistair 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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • 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.