Breakheart Pass
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Breakheart Pass
By (Author) Alistair MacLean
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
19th January 2021
17th September 2020
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Adventure fiction: Westerns
Historical adventure fiction
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Historical fiction
Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm
190g
Description
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 forts 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
Reviews
Explodes with action
The Mirror
Alistair MacLean is a magnificent storyteller
Sunday Mirror
Author Bio
Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. 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. He is now recognised as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.
