Fear is the Key

Name: Fear is the Key
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Alistair MacLean
ISBN: 9780008224356

Author: Alistair MacLean

Narrator: Jonathan Oliver

Unabridged: 10 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 05/25/2017

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British, Crime, International Crime & Mystery

Synopsis

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. 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nandakishore

This is one of the better MacLeans - a real mystery, non-stop suspense, and a tale of sweet revenge very satisfactorily carried out using the weapon of fear.......more

Goodreads review by P.J.

If you've never read Alistair Maclean, it will open you up to a whole new genre of thriller -- the post WW2 British yarn. A little more literary and less ribald than its American counterpart, but just as guilty a pleasure. It would be nearly impossible to offer an illustration of FEAR IS THE KEY wit......more

Goodreads review by George K.

"Στα νύχια του φόβου", εκδόσεις ΒΙΠΕΡ. Ενδέκατο βιβλίο του Άλιστερ Μακλίν που διαβάζω, μου φάνηκε και αυτό εξίσου συναρπαστικό και ψυχαγωγικό με όλα τα προηγούμενα. Άλλωστε, είναι από τους αγαπημένους μου συγγραφείς στο είδος της περιπέτειας και των ψυχροπολεμικών θρίλερ, οπότε δύσκολα θα με άφηνε πα......more

Quotes

‘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