Santorini
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- 6,49 €
Description de l’éditeur
The gripping tale of sabotage at sea, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
In the heart of the Aegean Sea, a luxury yacht is on fire and sinking fast. Minutes later, a four-engined jet with a fire in its nose-cone crashes into the sea.
Is there a sinister connection between these two tragedies? And is it an accident that the Ariadne, a NATO spy ship, is the only vessel in the vicinity – the only witness?
Only Commander Talbot of the Ariadne can provide the answers as he uncovers a deadly plot involving drugs and terrorism – leading to the heart of the Pentagon.
Reviews
'A magnificent storyteller' Sunday Mirror
‘The most successful British novelist of his time’ Jack Higgins
‘Alistair MacLean is one of the few people writing today who has a story to tell.’ Daily Express
About the author
Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sailing in the Aegean, NATO spyship HMS Ariadne sights two disasters at once, a bomber crashing into the sea and a large yacht sinking. The plane turns out to have been loaded with nuclear weapons, and the survivors rescued from the yacht appear somehow responsible for the plane's destruction. With potential saboteurs aboard, the crew of the Ariadne must raise the one activated weapon and carefully dispose of it. MacLean (The Lonely Sea has trumped up so many aspects of this novel that he has taken the fun out of it. Rather than have the spies seized and flown off, he keeps them on the frigate. Instead of bringing in experts to remove the weapons, he leaves the job in the hands of the ship's captain. He also ups the stakes: if the unstable nearby volcano, Santorini, erupts, the combined explosions would create a nuclear winter. The contrived plot together with MacLean's stiff writing style make for a lazily composed adventure. Paperback to Fawcett.
