Athabasca
- Author Alistair MacLean
- Narrator Mark Meadows
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 23 January 2025
- Run Time 8 hours and 21 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, Classic fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Technothriller, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
The nail-biting tale of sabotage set in the desolate frozen wastes of two ice-bound oil fields, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
SABOTAGE!
THE VICTIMS
Two of the most important oil-fields in the world – one in Canada, the other in Alaska.
THE SABOTEURS
An unknown quantity – deadly and efficient. The oil flow could be interrupted in any one of thousands of places down the trans-Alaskan pipeline.
THE RESULT
Catastrophe.
One man, Jim Brady, is called in to save the life-blood of the world as unerringly, the chosen targets fall at the hands of a hidden enemy…
Critics Review
‘Alistair MacLean is a magnificent storyteller’ Sunday Mirror
‘The most successful British novelist of his time’ Jack Higgins
‘Alistair MacLean is brilliant at building up the tension’ Sunday Mirror
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