Alistair Maclean
Author
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Description
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Now reissued in a new cover style. One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically accurate. Navarone itself, grim bastion of narrow straits manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians, an apparently impregnable iron fortress. To Captain Keith Mallory, skilled...
Author
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed master 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...
Author
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
222 pages ;
Language
English
Description
Collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career, the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck, and two new stories collected here for the first time. THE MASTER STORYTELLER IN HIS ELEMENT...
5) Athabasca
Author
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The nail-biting tale of sabotage set in the desolate frozen wastes of two ice-bound oil fields, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
SABOTAGE!
THE VICTIMS.
Two of the most important oil-fields in the world - one in Canada, the other in Alaska.
THE SABOTEURS.
An unknown quantity - deadly and efficient. The oil flow could be interrupted in any one of thousands of places down the trans-Alaskan pipeline.
THE RESULT.
Catastrophe.
One man,...
6) Seawitch
Author
Pub. Date
1977
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The tale of murder and revenge set on a remote oil rig, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. SEAWITCH The massive oil-rig is the hub of a great empire, the pride of its billionaire owner. Lord Worth, predatory and ruthless, has clawed his way to great wealth. Now, he cares for only two things – Sea witch and his two high-spirited daughters. One man knows this: John Cronkite, trouble-shooter for the world's top oilmen and Worth's ex-victim,...
Author
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
224 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The classic tale of adventure and the dark secrets of a lost city in the Brazilian jungle, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The Lost City Hamilton knows the way to the ruins deep in the Brazilian jungle - and the secret they hold. The millionaire who calls himself Smith seeks the lost city to avenge a wrong from his hidden past. Their journey down the River of Death is an epic of violence and danger. But the secret that awaits them...
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American general is shot down over Germany during WWII and captured. Unknown to the Germans, he has full knowledge of the D-Day operation. British Intelligence puts together a team to rescue him, but an American is in the squad for reasons unknown.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the worst of World War II, Hitler's armies are storming through Europe, but U.S. Colonel Barnsby (Ford) plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he'll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the Force 10 squad, fresh from their triumphant mission at Navarone. But when the team's plan goes awry, Barnsby and the squad's hard- driving Major Mallory (Shaw) are forced to devise a new and even...
10) Detonator
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's explosive action when a renegade Russian general who can't let go of the cold war gets his hands on a nuclear bomb and sends it hurling toward Iraq on a hijacked train. Special United Nations anti-crime agents are called in to stop the train and disarm the bomb. And nobody cares how.
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress in Greece and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.