Alistair MacLean
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The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Winter 1943, and US General Carnaby has been captured by the Nazis. He is being held in a fortress high in the Bavarian Alps. headquarters of the German Secret Service, and in his head are plans for the invasion of Normandy. A special team of British commandos, a US Army ranger and a female secret agent is hurriedly assembled. Their mission: parachute into the area,...
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Twelve hundred British soldiers are isolated and waiting to die on the small island of Kheros, off the Turkish coast. Their lives can be saved if only the long-range, large-caliber, and catastrophically accurate guns of Navarone are silenced before the British Royal Navy arrives.
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The nuclear submarine "Dolphin" has impossible orders: Sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of research station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice pack somewhere within the Arctic Circle. But the orders can't prepare the crew for what they'll find if their mission is successful -- that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage and one of the survivors is a killer...
4) HMS Ulysses
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Already pushed beyond the limits of endurance, HMS Ulysses and her crew must put to sea again, to escort a vital supply convoy heading for Murmansk, Russia. Surging deep into the frozen Arctic waters, they must battle not only the fierce weather, but also German attacks from the air, the sea, and beneath the waves, as the feared U-boats close in on their prey.--Provided by publisher.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1982.
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English
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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...
7) Circus
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Doubleday
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1975.
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English
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Reissue of the classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the world's greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Bruno Wildermann of the Wrinfield Circus is the world's greatest trapeze artist, a clairvoyant with near-supernatural powers and an implacable enemy of the East European regime that arrested his family and murdered his wife. The CIA needs such a man, and...
8) San Andreas
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Another magnificent tale of treachery at sea from a storytelling genius.
Suddenly, just before dawn, the lights went out aboard the San Andreas. For the British hospital ship sailing the deadly, U-boat patrolled Norwegian waters, a nightmare of violence and betrayal has begun. A terrifying game of sabotage in which an unknown traitor among the crew holds all the cards.
The red crosses on the vessel's sides spell anything but safety. For a dangerous...
9) Santorini
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Doubleday
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English
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In the Aegean a large airplane crashes at almost the same time a luxurious yacht is sinking. Commander Talbot of the Ariadne, a sophisticated British ship that is part of NATO, picks up the yacht's survivors, among them a wealthy Greek businessman. The downed plane, it is learned, contains hydrogen bombs and atomic mines, one of which is ticking. If the mine explodes in that spot, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tidal waves, ozone cracking, and possibly...
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Fawcett
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[1958]
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English
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The 50th anniversary edition of this classic World War 2 adventure set in south-east Asia. February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenseless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army, as the last boat slips out of the harbor into the South China Sea. On board are a desperate group of people, each with a secret to guard, each willing to kill to keep that secret safe.
Who or what is the dissolute Englishman, Farnholme? The elegant...
11) Breakheart Pass
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Doubleday
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1974.
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English
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After the Civil War, an army relief train takes supplies to an Indian fort, and its passengers suffer mysterious accidents.
12) Captain Cook
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Doubleday
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[1972]
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English
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A biography of the English explorer, navigator, and cartographer who discovered Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
13) Bear Island
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Doubleday
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1971.
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English
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The classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location filming, but the script is a secret known only to the producer and screenwriter. En route, members of the movie crew and ship's company begin to die under mysterious...
19) Where eagles dare. H.M.S. Ulysses. Ice Station Zebra. When eight bells toll. The guns of Navarrone
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Heinemann
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1980.
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English
20) Tylko dla orłów
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Iskry
Pub. Date
1989.
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Polish
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Eight Allied agents -- seven men and a woman -- parachute onto a mountainside behind enemy lines in wartime Germany. Their mission: to rescue an American general before the Nazis can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.