by Alistair Mac Lean (Author)
From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic. Paul Sherman of Interpol's Narcotics Bureau flies to Amsterdam on the trail of a dope king. With enormous skill the atmosphere is built up: Amsterdam with its canals and high houses; stolid police; psychopaths; women in distress and above all - murder.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 04 Jul 2005
ISBN 10: 0006157513
ISBN 13: 9780006157519
Book Overview: From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic. Competition: Jack Higgins, Ken Follett, Ian Fleming
'With this book Alistair MacLean will make another killing' Sunday Mirror
Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.