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Santorini - Alistair MacLean

 
Description: ISBN 0006174531 / Author: Alistair MacLean / Genre: Fiction / This is a military story about a ship that gets caught up in the middle of ... more
Santorini - Alistair MacLean ... an incident that could lead to a devastating end.

Newest Review: ... that there is a connection between these two events, and no coincidence that the Ariadne was the only ship in the area. ... more

 ... Commander Talbot’s investigations lead him to believe, Andropoulus, one of the 6 rescued members of the Delos is responsible. Without giving too much of the story away, Talbot and Van Gelder must figure out who is behind a sinister plan involving an American Bomber, a private yacht, nuclear warheads, atomic bombs, terrorism, drugs, the Ariadne and even the Pentagon. To solve this Talbot is aided by deep-sea divers, a cryptologist, his own intuition and the co-operation of the Vice-Admiral Hawkins. At the same ...more

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This story has been set during a time of great fear about nuclear weapons. The British naval frigate Ariadne, fitted with sophisticated electronic equipment, is on a mission to carry out a hydrographic survey in the Aegean Sea. Officially, that is. Unofficially, she is a spy ship, the eyes and ears of NATO. Her Captain is Commander Talbot, her first officer Lieutenant-Commander Van Gelder, both extremely well qualified men, and both ex-submariners. The radio room receives a distress call from a sinking Greek yacht called the Delos. At almost the same moment a plane, almost certainly a bomber, mysteriously crashes into the sea. It appears that there is a ...  Read the complete review

 

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