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‘Alistair MacLeans’s best…pure entertainment, wonderfully fast’ Daily Telegraph
‘MacLean is a master of this kind of action novel.
Evening Standard
‘In my opinion, his best ever. The pace is dazzling, the sea atmosphere superb’
Sunday Express
‘Grippingly suspenseful… ends with a supra-titanic bang’ Time
'Mr MacLean's grip on his story and characters is superb… His climax is murderous on the nerves' Sunday Telegraph
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A timeless classic of modern-day piracy from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
Aboard the SS Campari, all is not well.
For Johnny Carter, the Chief Officer, the voyage has already begun badly; but it’s only when the Campari sails that evening, after a succession of delays that he realises something is seriously wrong.
A member of the crew is suddenly missing and the stern-to-stern search only serves to increase tension. Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is in danger. Is the Campari a victim of modern day piracy? And what of the strange cargo hidden below the decks?
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a nice book to read - I enjoyed reading this more tham some of the other better know MacLean titles including Guns of Navorone, HMS Ulysses and some not so highly rated ones including Ice Station Zebra, Dark Crusader etc. (Have bought two more titles - Circus and Golden Gate - which I am yet to read).
I rate the Golden Rendezvous as the best I read of MacLean, mainly because of the narrative which is gripping and the sense of humour in the most unlikely circumstances ...
Captain Bullen, Susan Beresford and the 'I' (funny - I forgot the name of the protagonist - story is told in first person just like many other MacLean titles) - are some of the lovely characters to remember.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I have read several of Maclean's books and enjoyed this one. There is a good balance between development of characters and the action (in Bear Island for example, I felt the action came too little too late in the book)with the first death (murder) occurring early in the book.
It is written in the first person and the storyline flows smoothly and is an easy read. There are a few mistakes in the text as the transfer to Kindle has not been 100% smooth, but they are relatively few and do not really detract from the overall presentation. Fans of the author may feel from the outset that they can guess where the plot is going but there are some good twists and turns that will hold te readers interest right to the last pages.
The book has held up relatively well over time since initial publication. There is a hint of 'girls wear pink and boys wear blue' tone in the book and our hero is .... well heroic, making it also a book of its time.
Without giving any of the plot away, this is an adventure on the high seas. We are told early on that a nuclear warhead has gone missing and that on our boat are passengers who are fabulously rich and that there is some communication going on in the background between governments and their departments and what about the Generalissimo - does he want a nuclear warhead. These little snippets are dropped into the tale early and your mind will guessing how things unfold - just don't be too sure that you have guessed right.
Fans of Maclean will enjoy this title.
It is written in the first person and the storyline flows smoothly and is an easy read. There are a few mistakes in the text as the transfer to Kindle has not been 100% smooth, but they are relatively few and do not really detract from the overall presentation. Fans of the author may feel from the outset that they can guess where the plot is going but there are some good twists and turns that will hold te readers interest right to the last pages.
The book has held up relatively well over time since initial publication. There is a hint of 'girls wear pink and boys wear blue' tone in the book and our hero is .... well heroic, making it also a book of its time.
Without giving any of the plot away, this is an adventure on the high seas. We are told early on that a nuclear warhead has gone missing and that on our boat are passengers who are fabulously rich and that there is some communication going on in the background between governments and their departments and what about the Generalissimo - does he want a nuclear warhead. These little snippets are dropped into the tale early and your mind will guessing how things unfold - just don't be too sure that you have guessed right.
Fans of Maclean will enjoy this title.
Format:Kindle Edition
Bought this book after reading The Satan Bug by the same author and loving it (to the point where my Kindel now has more MacLean books on it than anything else!) and this is just as good. Filled with twists and turns as one would expect from the author, the only gripe was that, without giving anything away, some minor things were a little bit predictable at times, although it still kept me guessing enough with other things that I would still rate the book five stars and highly recommend it.
The only problem is that there seems to have been an issue when transferring the book to Kindel. It seems they've scanned a paper copy of the book in and used that as a basis for the digital copy as there are a few print errors that would seem to be the sort of errors a machine might make when trying to read words on paper. For example, phantom question marks (where what's been said couldn't possibly be posed as a question, and the response it gets clearly shows it wasn't meant as one) and several occurances where words were mistaken for others, such as 'coining' instead of 'coming', and 'all' instead of 'ah', all mistakes one could imagine a computer might make when trying to read psyical text on paper to convert it to digital (the 'll' could certainly be confused with an 'H', as could 'in' for an 'm' in a way). Whilst these are tiny issues in an otherwise brilliant book, it does sort of break the immersion a bit when one gets so engrosed in the story as I always seem to with MacLean.
Still, extremely highly recommended!
The only problem is that there seems to have been an issue when transferring the book to Kindel. It seems they've scanned a paper copy of the book in and used that as a basis for the digital copy as there are a few print errors that would seem to be the sort of errors a machine might make when trying to read words on paper. For example, phantom question marks (where what's been said couldn't possibly be posed as a question, and the response it gets clearly shows it wasn't meant as one) and several occurances where words were mistaken for others, such as 'coining' instead of 'coming', and 'all' instead of 'ah', all mistakes one could imagine a computer might make when trying to read psyical text on paper to convert it to digital (the 'll' could certainly be confused with an 'H', as could 'in' for an 'm' in a way). Whilst these are tiny issues in an otherwise brilliant book, it does sort of break the immersion a bit when one gets so engrosed in the story as I always seem to with MacLean.
Still, extremely highly recommended!
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