The Golden Gate
By (Author) Alistair MacLean
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
20th January 2021
17th September 2020
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller: organised crime
Political / legal thriller
Adventure / action fiction
Thriller: terrorism
Historical crime and mysteries
Fiction based on or inspired by true events
Narrative theme: Politics
823.914
Paperback
368
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm
240g
A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense.
A ROLLING FOR KNOX
is how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI believe it is impregnable as it has to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard.
But halfway across the bridge the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world a master criminal pulls off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times
Startlingly goodtenseingenious
Sunday Express
Alistair MacLean is a magnificent storyteller
Sunday Mirror
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.