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 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?

The Golden Rendezvous

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.

HMS Ulysses

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 recruits Bruno for an impossible raid - on the impreganble Lubylan fortress, where his family is held.

 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 there is a communist agent with orders to stop Bruno at any cost.

Circus

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

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

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

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...

Night Without End

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