Floodgate
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.45 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002RUA4UM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Reissue of the tense tale of a deadly terrorist plot set Holland, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.AMSTERDAM AIRPORT HAS DISAPPEAREDBLACKMAILThe mass of water in its place is the work of the FFF - an Irish terrorist group who want to force Britain’s hand.SUBTERFUGEThe Dutch call in Detective Lieutenant van Effen - feared interrogator and undercover intimate of the criminal Krakers gang - to sabotage the FFF’s plan.DISASTERIf van Effen fails and the FFF get control of the vital dyke, either Holland will sink beneath the sea or Britain will be awash with blood.
‘Alistar MacLean is one of the few people writing today who has a story to tell’ Daily Express'A magnificent storyteller' Sunday Mirror‘The most successful British novelist of his time’ Jack Higgins
"Three Stars" according to michael timmons. The auther's heroes are a touch too "crafty".. Five Stars C. Knott Alistair MacLean never wrote a bad book they were all good. "Typical latter-day Maclean" according to H. Jin. Maclean's later novels were nowhere near the quality of his early ones, and unfortunately 'Floodgate' is no exception. The heart-pounding action of his classic work is nowhere to be seen. Instead, the protagonists are reactive and passive, and seem to spend most of their time sitting around drinking schnapps. A key plot point involves our hero in
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. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. . He is now recognized as one of the outstanding p