The Last Frontier

Name: The Last Frontier
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Alistair MacLean
ISBN: 9780008461843

Author: Alistair MacLean

Narrator: Richard Trinder

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 03/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Classic, Military Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Espionage

Synopsis

An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong – a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Doctor Jennings, a noted scientist in possession of a precious secret, has gone over to the Soviet Union. It is Michael Reynolds’ mission to get him back. To penetrate behind the Iron Curtain and reach his quarry will be difficult enough, especially with the fearsome Hungarian Secret Police watching his every move. Then, from inside that terrifying organisation, comes the offer of help – the question is: can it be trusted?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandy on July 11, 2014

"The Secret Ways" was a very significant work for Scottish author Alistair MacLean. His fourth novel out of an eventual 29, it was his first to feature a Cold War, espionage-type story, after three successive novels dealing with WW 2 adventure (1955's "H.M.S. Ulysses," 1957's "The Guns of Navarone"......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on February 19, 2014

What can you say about Alistair MacLean? He's a great storyteller, but not such a good writer? Does that chime with you? I enjoy his books but sometimes find the narrative irritating and repetitive. He handles action very well and understands pace. Characterisation, which is the element of fiction I......more

Goodreads review by Jonah on October 18, 2010

What I disliked about this book: The protagonist is unconvincing in his 'best man for the job' designation. He makes basic and glaring errors repeatedly (he basically blunders through the entire book), he is subverted within a few days by his Hungarian contacts (suggesting the UK didn't bother to scr......more

Goodreads review by Don on April 15, 2019

While this is not one of Alistair MacLean’s greatest books, there are many elements in it that are contained in his later works. For those who crave action, there is plenty of it here. The author is wonderful at weaving danger and suspense together, and due to his creative writing, it is easy to bec......more

Goodreads review by Fredrick on August 19, 2020

When a prominent scientist defects to the Soviet Union with a precious secret, Michael Reynolds is tasked with bringing him back.......more

Quotes

‘Breathless, bloody and detailed.’Daily Telegraph

‘Swift-moving, with a tremendous climactic scene on the snow-swept roof of a trans-Hungarian express.’Glasgow Herald

‘One of the great postwar thrillers’ Lee Child