Ariadne

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

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

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

A magnificent tale of heart-stopping suspense from the highly acclaimed master of the genre.

 The Rocky Mountains, Winter 1873.

 One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling along it is a crowded troop train, bound for the cholera-stricken garrison at Fort Humboldt. On board are the Governor of Nevada, the daughter of the fort's commander and a US marshal escorting a notorious outlaw. Between them and safety are the hostile Paiute Indians - and a man who will stop at nothing, not even murder.

Breakheart Pass

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.

Goodbye California

Four classic tales of adventure in the frozen north, from the master of action and suspense, available for the first time in this e-bundle.

 Discover why Alistair MacLean was the most popular thriller writer of his generation in these four classic stories of the frozen north - a deadly military submarine mission in the Arctic Ocean, a murder mystery in the darkness of the Polar night, a terrorist-induced plane crash in Iceland, and high-stakes sabotage in the pipelines of the Alaskan oil fields.

 Night Without End - An airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The ten survivors seek refuge at a remote scientific research station In temperatures 40 degrees below freezing. But which of them killed the pilot before the crash, and why?

 Ice Station Zebra - The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting in the ice floes north of the Arctic Circle. But the orders do not say that the fire was sabotage, and that one of the survivors is a killer.

 Bear Island - A film crew sails north to a barren Arctic island - with a killer on board. As passengers and crew start dying, a wartime graveyard of ships and men explodes in violence once more.

 Athabasca - Two of the most important oil fields in the world have been sabotaged: one in Canada, the other in Alaska. As targets fall, a deadly and efficient enemy is intent on causing the utmost destruction.

Alistair MacLean Arctic Chillers 4-Book Collection - Night Without End, Ice Station Zebra, Bear Island, Athabasca

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, break in to the alpine Castle, and rescue General Carnaby before the Germans can interrogate him.

 But unknown to all, there is another mission, and someone in the group is a traitor.

Where Eagles Dare

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?

Ariadne

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