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Santorini

Santorini( )
Author: MacLean, Alistair
ISBN:978-0-385-23153-4
Publication Date:Feb 1987
Publisher:The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Imprint:Doubleday
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

An eighty-foot yacht suddenly capsizes in the Aegean, leaving only six survivors. Then, minutes later, in the same area, an unidentified four-engine jet crashes into the sea. Are these twin disasters more than coincidence? Commander Talbot and the crew of the HMS Ariadne are assigned to retrieve from the ocean floor the jet's volatile cargo: atomic and hydrogen weaponry with the force to destroy millions. As the delicate operation proceeds, Talbot finds himself trapped in a whirl of...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Book Weight:0.9 Pounds
Author Biography
MacLean, Alistair (Author)
Alistair MacLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland on April 28, 1922. During World War II, he served in the Royal Navy. He graduated with a degree in English from Glasgow University. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a teacher.

He wrote numerous books including HMS Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, Dark Crusader, Satan Bug, Captain Cook: A Biography, and Santorini. He also wrote The Black Shrike and The Satan Bug under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. Several of his books were adapted into movies including The Secret Ways, Fear Is the Key, and When Eight Bells Toll. He also wrote several original screenplays including Breakheart Pass and conceived an adventure drama for television entitled The Hostage Towers.

He died of heart failure on February 2, 1987 at the age of 64.

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