Four Great Adventure Stories

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Alistair MacLean has long been acknowledged as the supreme master in the art of adventure writing. Here, published for the first time as one volume, are four of his best known stories, with an introduction by the film-maker Carl Foreman, who directed The Guns of Navarone. WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL - Philip Calvert, secret service agent, hunts a ruthless gang of bullion snatchers and their well-armed minions through the Western Isles. THE GOLDEN GATE - A rolling Fort 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 had to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard. But half-way across the bridge, the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world, a master-criminal brings off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times. CARAVAN TO VACCARÉS - The gypsy caravan has crossed Europe to the annual pilgrimage near Les Baux in southern Francé. Its... Tovább

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Alistair MacLean has long been acknowledged as the supreme master in the art of adventure writing. Here, published for the first time as one volume, are four of his best known stories, with an introduction by the film-maker Carl Foreman, who directed The Guns of Navarone. WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL - Philip Calvert, secret service agent, hunts a ruthless gang of bullion snatchers and their well-armed minions through the Western Isles. THE GOLDEN GATE - A rolling Fort 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 had to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard. But half-way across the bridge, the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world, a master-criminal brings off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times. CARAVAN TO VACCARÉS - The gypsy caravan has crossed Europe to the annual pilgrimage near Les Baux in southern Francé. Its leaders will kill to hide the identity of somé of their number - and they do. From manhunts in the ancient lime caves to near-murder in the bullring, the story twists with breathtaking speed to its startiing conclusion. CIRCUS - Bruno Wildermann of the Wrinfield Circus is the world's greatest trapézé artiste, a clairvoyantwith near-supernatural powers, and an implacable enemy of the East European regime that murdered his wife and arrested his family. The CIA needs such a man and recruits Bruno for an impossible raid on the impregnable Lubylan fortress. Under cover of a circus tour Bruno prepares to return to his homeland. But before the journey even begins a murderer strikes twice, Somewhere in the circus is a communist agent with orders to stop Bruno at any cost. Vissza