The Golden Rendezvous
By (Author) Alistair MacLean
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
5th May 2021
7th January 2021
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
823.914
Paperback
384
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
260g
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 its 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
Glorious and solid in every possible way Lee Child
Alistair MacLeanss bestpure entertainment, wonderfully fast Daily Telegraph
MacLean is a master of this kind of action novel Evening Standard
In my opinion, his best ever. The pace is dazzling, the sea atmosphere superb Sunday Express
Grippingly suspenseful ends with a supra-titanic bang Time
'Mr MacLean's grip on his story and characters is superb His climax is murderous on the nerves' Sunday Telegraph
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.