The Guns of Navarone
- Author Alistair MacLean
- Narrator Jonathan Oliver
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 9 February 2017
- Run Time 11 hours and 50 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Espionage and spy thriller, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: journeys and voyages, Second World War fiction.
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What to expect
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded atop an impregnable iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea.
Twelve hundred British soldiers trapped on a nearby island, with no hope of rescue from Allied ships, waiting to die.
Keith Mallory, world-famous mountaineer, skilled saboteur. His mission: to lead a small team of misfits and silence the guns forever.
Reaching the island and scaling the sheer cliffs undetected will be hard enough; defeating the German forces and destroying the massive guns all but impossible. And as for getting out alive when there may be a traitor in the team…
Critics Review
‘Could hardly be bettered.’
Sunday Times
‘Its strength comes from the speed of its narrative, its vivid creation of tensions and its power in handling descriptions of action.’
Evening Standard
‘Action sustained at a high pitch. From the outset there is a feeling of suspense: a problem that can only be solved by action involving danger and demanding courage … an insistently gripping tale.’
Scotsman
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