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Where Eagles Dare (Adrenaline Classics)

Alistair MacLean

Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot twists make this the classic adventure thriller—the kind of page-turner that readers actually will find impossible to put down. A team of British Special Forces commandos parachutes into the high peaks of the Austrian Alps with the mission of stealing into an invulnerable alpine castle—accessible only by aerial gondola—the headquarters of Nazi intelligence. Supposedly sent in to rescue one of their own, their real mission turns out to be a lot more complicated—and the tension climbs as team members start to die off, one by one. Written by Alistair Maclean, author of the Guns of Navarone, this is the novel that set the pace for the modern action thriller (the film version, with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, also helped), and it still packs twice the punch of most contemporary best-selling thrillers. What's more, the cast of spooks, turncoats, and commandos who drive this story are more relevant than ever in our new era of special forces, black ops, and unpredictable alliances.
Night without end

Alistair MacLean
Ice Station Zebra

Alistair MacLean

The Dolphin, pride of America's nuclear fleet, is the only submarine capable of attempting the rescue of a British meteorological team trapped on the polar ice cap. The officers of the Dolphin know well the hazards of such an assignment. What they do not know is that the rescue attempt is really a cover-up for one of the most desperate espionage missions of the Cold War -- and that the Dolphin is heading straight for sub-zero disaster, facing hidding sabotage, murder . . . and a deadly, invisible enemy . . .
Guns of Navarone

Alistair Maclean

An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been driven back. Now they were sending in just five men, each one a specialist in dealing death.
When Eight Bells Toll

Alistair MacLean
Fear is the Key

Alistair MacLean
The Golden Rendezvous

Alistair Maclean
Circus

Alistair Maclean
Puppet on a Chain

Alistair MacLean
Bear Island

Alistair Maclean
The Golden Gate

Alistair MacLean
South by Java Head

Alistair Maclean
Santorini

Alistair MacLean

An eighty-foot yacht suddenly capsizes in the Aegean, leaving only six survivors. Then, minutes later, in the same area, an unidentified four-engine jet crashes into the sea. Are these twin disasters more than coincidence?
Commander Talbot and the crew of the HMS Ariadne are assigned to retrieve from the ocean floor the jet's volatile cargo: atomic and hydrogen weaponry with the force to destroy millions. As the delicate operation proceeds, Talbot finds himself trapped in a whirl of nightmarish events involving terrorism and drugs -- and a diabolic plot that leads straight to the Pentagon.

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The way to dusty death

Alistair MacLean
The Guns of Navarone/Force 10 from Navarone (Cinema Classics)

Alistair Maclean
The Dark Crusader

Alistair MacLean
Caravan to Vaccares

Alistair MacLean
The Last Frontier/(formerly)The Secret Ways

Alistair MacLean
Alistair MacLean's Night Watch

Alastair MacNeill, Alistair MacLean
THE SATAN BUG

To the outside world, the Mordon Labs existed solely for experiments in preventive medicine...but in reality they were secret laboratories for the development of germ warfare--a strain of toxin so deadly that the release of one teaspoon could annihilate mankind. Late one night, the Mordon security officer was found murdered outside the lab. And the Satan Bug was missing...