Athabasca

This is not one of MacLean's tightly-plotted masterpieces, but it does make a really satisfying head-movie on a hot summer day. The oil fields of Alaska and the tar sands of Canada are being threatened by some shadowy and efficient terrorist organization. Our two intrepid investigators are out to fi......more

Alistair MacLean was a thriller writer who wrote Ice Station Zebra, The Guns of Navarone, Force 10 From Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, and many other great books. He also wrote this piece of crap. The action takes place in Maclean's beloved Arctic. Someone is sabotaging the Alaska Pipeline and the Athab......more

2.4 ⭐ Read this many years ago but I clearly recall I was disappointed by this book. The characters were one dimensional and unconvincing. MacLean spent some time learning about the oil sands and the current technology of the time, but very little about Alberta and it's people. It was as if he copied......more