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‘Guns, gangsters, sudden death, terrific action on land and under the sea … Fear is the Key has a plot that will require a lot of willpower to stop you looking at the last page.’
Sunday Mirror
‘Keeps tension at screaming point.’
Daily Express
‘Excitement and violence … the pace never slackens.’
Scotsman
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'Guns, gangsters, sudden death, terrific action on land and under the sea ! Fear is the Key has a plot that will require a lot of willpower to stop you looking at the last page.' Sunday Mirror 'Keeps tension at screaming point.' Daily Express 'Excitement and violence ! the pace never slackens.' Scotsman
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This Scottish author is world famous for producing some great books and screenplays. Fear Is The Key was first published in 1961. It was made into a film in 1972 starring Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon and Ben Kingsley.
This may not be one of Alistair MacLean's most popular works, but I first read it many years ago, I thoroughly enjoyed it and when the film came out, I was not disappointed, because with the addition of exciting car chases and stunts, the story was made even more enjoyable. I read this book again recently and still enjoyed the story. In my opinion, one of Alistair MacLean's better novels.
The start of the story has you hooked right away. Talbot is on the radio to one of his charterd planes that was flying to Florida with some cargo. He listens helplessly as the plane is shot down over the sea by a military plane. He seeks revenge for the downing of the plane and turns to crime. There was something more precious than cargo went down with that plane. He steals a car, takes a hostage and is chased down by the police. The story has a fantastic gripping end. I thoroughly enjoyed re-reading this book.
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Alistair MacLean was born in Shettleston Glasgow on the 21st of April 1922. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II as a leading torpedo operator on the HMS Royalist. After he left the Royal Navy in 1946, he studied English and became a school teacher in Rutherglen, Glasgow.
He first wrote under the pen name of Ian Stuart
Alistair MacLean died in Germany on the 2nd of February 1987
This may not be one of Alistair MacLean's most popular works, but I first read it many years ago, I thoroughly enjoyed it and when the film came out, I was not disappointed, because with the addition of exciting car chases and stunts, the story was made even more enjoyable. I read this book again recently and still enjoyed the story. In my opinion, one of Alistair MacLean's better novels.
The start of the story has you hooked right away. Talbot is on the radio to one of his charterd planes that was flying to Florida with some cargo. He listens helplessly as the plane is shot down over the sea by a military plane. He seeks revenge for the downing of the plane and turns to crime. There was something more precious than cargo went down with that plane. He steals a car, takes a hostage and is chased down by the police. The story has a fantastic gripping end. I thoroughly enjoyed re-reading this book.
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Alistair MacLean was born in Shettleston Glasgow on the 21st of April 1922. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II as a leading torpedo operator on the HMS Royalist. After he left the Royal Navy in 1946, he studied English and became a school teacher in Rutherglen, Glasgow.
He first wrote under the pen name of Ian Stuart
Alistair MacLean died in Germany on the 2nd of February 1987
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In May 1958, Talbot, owner of "Trans Carib Air Charter Co" was grounded at Belize in British Honduras. He was in radio contact with one of his DCs on its way to Tampa when he heard that his plane was being attacked by a US Army Air Force plane. Who could have wanted to destroy the plane? For Talbot, a long and dangerous quest for the answers to his questions is about to begin. - A very good adventure story very much in the author's vein.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico -- and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style. A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead -- but only after he had avenged their murders.
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