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 VICTIMSTwo of the most important oil-fields in the world - one in Canada, the other in Alaska.

 THE SABOTEURSAn unknown quantity - deadly and efficient. The oil flow could be interrupted in any one of thousands of places down the trans-Alaskan pipeline.

 THE RESULTCatastrophe.

 One man, Jim Brady, is called in to save the life-blood of the world as unerringly, the chosen targets fall at the hands of a hidden enemy.

Athabasca

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 secret has turned the ship into a priceless quarry.

 With the Captain out of action Bosun Archie McKinnon takes over. Alone in treacherous, frozen seas, her compass smashed, the San Andreas is being drawn relentlessly into the enemy's hands.

San Andreas

From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic.

 An airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive.

 But for the members of a remote scientific research station who rescue them, there are some sinister questions to answer - the first one being, who shot the pilot before the crash?

Night Without End

Introducing UNACO - the United Nations Anti Crime Organisation - an elite team of agents who battle the world's deadliest criminals. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO.

 The most ingenious criminal in the world has come up with his most spectacular exploit, to kidnap the mother of the president of the United States and hold her and the Eiffel Tower to ransom.

 He hires for his team:. a top weapons expert, who can steal and use the newest, most secret military equipment. the best cat burglar, who can scale any heights. a man whose extraordinary strength and ingenuity will conquer any obstacle.

 Faced with this audacious crime of the century, the world's top politicians can only turn to UNACO and its team.

Hostage Tower

Marin dans la Royal Navy durant toute la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Alistair MacLean décrit de façon réaliste et poignante l'épopée héroïque du destroyer Ulysses, un équipage surmené, privé de permission par une décision inique de l'état-major, fait face aux effroyables tempêtes, au froid glacial, aux dangereux brouillards qui caractérisent la navigation hivernale dans les mers arctiques. L'Allemagne nazie jette ses forces navales et aériennes dans la bataille des convois, pour interrompre le flux vital de ravitaillement en armes et matériel de guerre de l'URSS. Les attaques incessantes de sous-marins et d'avions allemands transforment le convoi en une terrifiante épopée, menant l'équipage aux limites de la résistance humaine et au bord de la mutinerie. Il faudra le respect et la confiance qu'inspire un commandant charismatique pour souder l'équipage, alors qu'apparaissent dans les brumes polaires les croiseurs et cuirassés de la puissante Kriegsmarine...

HMS Ulysses

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century's greatest writers of action and suspense - an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II.

 Constant patrols have pushed the crew of the HMS Ulysses beyond the limits of endurance. And now they must be put to sea again, to escort a vital supply convoy heading for Murmansk.

 As they head deep into the frozen waters they are faced not only with the fierce arctic weather, but a swarm of airborne attacks, German ships, then the feared U-boats, all hellbent on destroying the convoy.

 With each day threatening another sudden attack, and increasing hardships aboard the frozen ship, Ulysses suffers greater damage trying to protect the other vessels. And soon the journey becomes a tense and deadly game of cat and mouse between the crippled cruiser and her silent pursuers.

Le sous-marin est un monde à part, claustrophobique, périlleux, camouflé par les masses d'eau. Les romans et récits qui composent cette anthologie nous font vivre cette expérience loin du soleil.
Ce sont des histoires de bateaux pas comme les autres - de ces monstres dont l'invention révolutionna l'art de la guerre et modifia toutes les données de la géopolitique mondiale. 
Même si l'homme aujourd'hui atteint et ratisse le fond des océans, la banalisation de cette navigation contre nature n'enlève rien au mystère et au trouble qui entourent tout ce qui se passe sous les eaux, à l'angoisse et à la fascination que tout sous-marin en plongée traîne dans son sillage.
 La catastrophe du Koursk n'est que le dernier des événements spectaculaires ou étranges survenus à des sous-marins. A travers les récits de guerre authentiques et les romans ici réunis, on a tenté d'approcher le coeur d'épopées humaines intenses où la réalité dépasse toujours la plus osée des fictions.

Dossier historique de Dominique Le Brun, illustré de dessins de François le Guern

Sous-marins : récits, romans

From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic.  400 miles north of the Arctic Circle, an airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive.  For the members of a remote scientific research station who rescue them, there are some sinister questions to answer -the first one being, who shot the pilot before the crash?  Then, with communications cut and supplies running low, the station doctor must lead the survivors on a desperate bid to reach the coast, knowing all the while that there is a ruthless enemy in their midst, someone working to accomplish their destruction.

NIGHT WITHOUT END

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

 The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded atop an impregnable iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea.

 Twelve hundred British soldiers trapped on a nearby island, with no hope of rescue from Allied ships, waiting to die.

 Keith Mallory, world-famous mountaineer, skilled saboteur. His mission: to lead a small team of misfits and silence the guns forever.

 Reaching the island and scaling the sheer cliffs undetected will be hard enough; defeating the German forces and destroying the massive guns all but impossible. And as for getting out alive when there may be a traitor in the team.

The guns of Navarone

A timeless classic of modern-day piracy from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

 Aboard the SS Campari, all is not well.

 For Johnny Carter, the Chief Officer, the voyage has already begun badly; but it's only when the Campari sails that evening, after a succession of delays that he realises something is seriously wrong.

 A member of the crew is suddenly missing and the stern-to-stern search only serves to increase tension. Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is in danger. Is the Campari a victim of modern day piracy? And what of the strange cargo hidden below the decks?

The Golden Rendezvous

A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico - and on the sea bed below it.

 A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy.

 The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin.

 Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead - but only after he had avenged their murders.

Fear is the Key

The classic tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist investigates a series of mysterious deaths, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

 From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the holy shrine of their patron saint in the Provence region of southern France. But something is different about this year's gathering, with many suspicious deaths.

 Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman decide to investigate. Eavesdropping, Bowman discovers that a man named Gaiuse Strome is financing the gypsies, and his suspicions on the real identity of Strome center on a highly wealthy aristocrat, distinguished folklorist and gastronome, Le Grand Duc Charles de Croytor, whose girlfriend Lila Delafont is a friend of Cecile.

 As they follow the caravan, Bowman and Cecile find that their lives in danger many times in an effort to uncover the secret the gypsies are so determined to hide, and before long are running for their lives.

Caravan to Vaccares

The classic tale of terrorism, where a criminal fanatic is hell-bent on blasting San Francisco into the ocean, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

 'Earthquake country, ' said the Professor. 'San Francisco is geologically and seismologically a city that waits to die. Los Angeles is ringed by earthquake centres - seven massive quakes so far. We have no idea where the next, the monster, will hit.'

 .until a criminal fanatic kidnaps a nuclear scientist and builds his own atomic bombs. If exploded on California's fault lines they could trigger off the mightiest earthquake of them all - killing half its population and dumping the entire city of San Francisco into the sea.

 Goodbye California.

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