Death Train (Large Print Edition) - Hardcover

MacNeill, Alastair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0862203848 ISBN 13: 9780862203849

Publisher: Chivers Press, 1990

Synopsis

This novel is written from a series of detailed story outlines Alistair MacLean was commissioned to write by an American film company in 1977. A deadly cargo of plutonium-IV is secreted in a freight car travelling through Europe. The United Nations Anti-Crime Organization mount an operation to discover how the plutonium was stolen. Their agents find themselves up against a conspiracy of interests including a sinister arms dealer and a highly-placed business magnate. Of the six kegs discovered, one contains a substance that could have catastrophic results for the whole world for generations to come. Alistair MacLean is also the author of "The Guns of Navarone', "Where Eagles Dare" and "Santorini".

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Review:

‘Exciting and with all the action MacLean fans are used to’ Northern Echo

'A magnificent storyteller' Sunday Mirror

‘The most successful British novelist of his time’ Jack Higgins

‘Alistar MacLean is one of the few people writing today who has a story to tell.’ Daily Express

About the Author:

Alistair MacNeill was born in Scotland in 1960. His family moved to South Africa when he was six years old, where he showed a growing interest in writing. He returned to Britian in 1985 to pursue a full-time writing career.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chivers Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0862203848
• ISBN 13: 9780862203849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304