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The Golden Gate
- Author
- Alistair MacLean
- Narrator
- Jonathan Oliver
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 3 August 2017
- Run Time
- 9 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
What to expect
A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense.
A ROLLING FOR KNOX
is how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI believe it is impregnable – as it has to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard.
But halfway across the bridge the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world a master criminal pulls off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times…
Critics Review
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‘Startlingly good…tense…ingenious’
Sunday Express‘Alistair MacLean is a magnificent storyteller’
Sunday Mirror
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Details
- Author
- Alistair MacLean
- Narrator
- Jonathan Oliver
- Duration
- 9 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 August 2017
- ISBN
- 9780008253981
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Thriller: organised crime / gangland crime, Political / legal thriller, Adventure / action fiction, Thriller: terrorism, Historical crime and mysteries, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Narrative theme: politics / economics
Synopsis
A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense. A ROLLING FOR KNOX is how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI believe it is impregnable – as it has to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard. But halfway across the bridge the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world a master criminal pulls off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times…
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