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OverviewA tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense. A ROLLING FOR KNOX is how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI believe it is impregnable – as it has to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard. But halfway across the bridge the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world a master criminal pulls off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times… Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alistair MacLeanPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Imprint: HarperCollins Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.240kg ISBN: 9780008337469ISBN 10: 0008337462 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 17 September 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews‘Startlingly good…tense…ingenious’ Sunday Express ‘Alistair MacLean is a magnificent storyteller’ Sunday Mirror 'Startlingly good...tense...ingenious' Sunday Express 'Alistair MacLean is a magnificent storyteller' Sunday Mirror Author InformationAlistair 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 recognised as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |