- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Harper; (Reissue) edition (6 May 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006157505
- ISBN-13: 978-0006157502
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 201,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Gripping and tense story of secret agents, even more secret government facilities, and a deadly virus, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
HELL IS ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED…
Five strands of high-voltage wire, 200 yards of bare ground and double barbed wire fences patrolled by armed guards with dogs separated Mordon Research Centre from the outside world.
Yet behind the locked doors of E block, a scientist lies dead, and a new toxin of terrifying power has vanished…
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having got the book I wasn't really sure it was going to be my kind of read. Boy was I wrong! The characterisation of Pierre, as a tough yet flawed hero working against the clock to rescue not only his wife, but the world is fabulous and fast-paced. You end up feeling for Pierre, his motives and reasoning as this cynical yet strong personality get more explained as you read further into the book. The technical know-how, especially when it comes to the viruses is not too complex so it's understandable. Mordon is this dreary and bleak place, and the reader really does get a feel of it as being so, I won't say any more - but this they don't write them as they used to! This is excellant book, with a great plot and brilliant characterisation, it doesn't feel dated - but instead it transports you into a secret and dangereous world. Buy this book, trust me you won't be dissapointed!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
i read this book four times-once recently- and boy since reading this book this book for the first time at the age of 14, i still think its jaw droppingly riveting, and he shows how other thriller writers should pen a book. From the first chapter to the last you will feel your hands gripping the armchair and your pulse will throb triple in speed.Trust me!!it just comes to show you dont need 500 pages(ala clancy) or filthy language or nude scenes to keep a book afloat, and boy doesnt mr maclean keeps this one afloat.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Alistair Maclean was the thriller novelist of the late sixties and seventies and it's good to see that they are still in print. However it is probably fair to say that Alistair Maclean started at the top (with the absolutely superb "H.M.S.Ulyssees") and things generally went downhill from there. Some of his later books were total rubbish and hardly worth the paper they were written on. I once read "The Guns of Navarone",a great early novel, and followed it up by reading the much later written follow up "Force 10 to Navarone" which is frankly dreadful. Characters who were strong in the original novel are reduced to puppets in the sequel. What about "The Satan Bug"? Well good and bad. The narrative is typically taught and pacy and just when you think things can't possibly get any worse for the ultra tough hero - they invariably do. And there's a big dramatic denouement. But the general plot line is laughably flawed. I won't give away the plot but on an even routine examination the possibility of the "baddy" achieving the position he does wouldn't be believed by a three year old child. So really while fairly good the seeds of decline are already here in "The Satan Bug". But it's a quick easy read - but for true classic Maclean go for the other books I've mentioned and also "The Last Frontier","South by Java Head" and "Ice Sation Zebra" - in those Alistair Maclean was a master thriller writer at the top of hhis game.
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Five strands of high-voltage wire, 200 yards of bare ground and double barbed wire fences patrolled by armed guards with dogs separated Mordon Research Centre from the outside... Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2007 by Mary_10
Makes the mouth go dry...
Put simply one of the best novels ever written.
A virus has been stolen from a top research lab, the most deadly poison ever invented. Nothing, but nothing can stop it. Read more
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