The Dark Crusader
- Author Alistair MacLean
- Narrator Ciaran Saward
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 18 January 2022
- Run Time 9 hours and 43 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Adventure fiction, Classic fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction, Speculative fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
A classic tale of espionage, secret missions and exotic locations which out-Bonds Bond, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
Eight job advertisements.
Eight jobs. Eight specialists in modern technology required.
Eight scientists to fill them.
Applicants to be married, with no children, and prepared to travel. Highly persuasive salaries.
One criminal mastermind.
Eight positions filled. Eight scientists – and their wives – disappear. Completely.
One secret agent to stop him.
Advertisement no.9. Sydney, Australia. Fuel specialist required. Looks like a job for John Bentall…
Critics Review
‘A fierce whodunit set on a rocket-proving island in the Pacific. Moves at jet pace’ Oxford Mail
‘As satisfying a saga of death, double-dealing and cloak-and-dagger work as I’ve read in a long time’ Books and Bookmen
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