Book description
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action
and suspense. Now issued for the first time as an e-book.
Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros
off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy,
lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns
of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically accurate. Navarone
itself, grim bastion of narrow straits manned by a mixed garrison of
Germans and Italians, an apparently impregnable iron fortress. To
Captain Keith Mallory, skilled saboteur, trained mountaineer, fell the
task of leading the small party detailed to scale the vast, impossible
precipice of Navarone and to blow up the guns. The Guns of Navarone is
the story of that mission, the tale of a calculated risk taken in the
time of war… 'Could hardly be bettered.'
Sunday Times
'Its strength comes from the speed of its narrative, its vivid creation
of tensions and its power in handling descriptions of action.'
Evening Standard
'Action sustained at a high pitch. From the outset there is a feeling
of suspense: a problem that can only be solved by action involving
danger and demanding courage … an insistently gripping tale.'
Scotsman 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 recognized as one of the outstanding
popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide
bestsellers, many of which have been filmed. He died in 1987.
