The Golden Gate, Alistair MacLean
The Golden Gate, Alistair MacLean
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The Golden Gate

Author: Alistair MacLean

Narrator: Jonathan Oliver

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 08/03/2017


Synopsis

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…

Reviews

The Golden Gate is a suspense–thriller, around a meticulously planned, daring kidnapping. The book opens with master-criminal Branson, who with his crew is beginning to give effect to something they’ve been planning for a while, each team of men taking the places they’re meant to including as police......more

There was a time when I really loved the thriller genre - Alistair MacLean was pretty much God then. In this novel, the President of the U.S. along with his motorcade is trapped on the Golden Gate Bridge by criminals for ransom. However, Agent Revson who is part of the team has another plans. A fast-......more

Goodreads review by David

I was going through my collection of favorites and glad I kept this hardback copy I found in a thrift store about fifteen years ago. I had yet to be published and admired MacLean's ability to write novels and screenplays. Some of his books have been made into memorable movies (The Guns of Navarone,......more


Quotes

‘Startlingly good…tense…ingenious’Sunday Express ‘Alistair MacLean is a magnificent storyteller’Sunday Mirror