WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL - Softcover

Maclean, Alistair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449204944 ISBN 13: 9780449204948

Publisher: Fawcett, 1983

Synopsis

This is vintage MacLean. This is a gripping story of modern piracy planned on such a scale that national interests are threatened. Several bullion-carrying ships have mysteriously disappeared - the latest with two secret agents aboard, planted among the crew. The Secret Service is alerted and Philip Calvert is commissioned to investigate. The trail leads Calvert to the Western Isles of Scotland, and to a mysterious vessel, moored in a bleak and misty bay. As he slips silently aboard he knows he has found the missing ship, The Nantesville. The original crew have disappeared - all but the two agents - and they are dead. Calvert's nocturnal, and nearly fatal, adventure begins to throw some light on the secret of the disappearing vessels, but questions remain, and there's more than a hint of conspiracy.

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Review

· ‘Keeps up its high-wire tension all the way. Not to be missed’ Guardian

· ‘A cracker-jack opening. Insistently readable’ Evening Standard

· ‘Breathless action...and a sterling plot’
Financial Times

About the Author

Alistair MacLean (1922-1987) served in the navy during the Second World War. Other popular works of his were The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare. When Eight Bells Toll was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Robert Morley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0449204944
• ISBN 13: 9780449204948
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback