The Golden Rendezvous

Name: The Golden Rendezvous
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Alistair MacLean
ISBN: 9780008527334

Author: Alistair MacLean

Narrator: Ciaran Saward

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 01/18/2022

Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Classic, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British

Synopsis

A timeless classic of modern-day piracy from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Aboard the SS Campari, all is not well. For Johnny Carter, the Chief Officer, the voyage has already begun badly; but it’s only when the Campari sails that evening, after a succession of delays that he realises something is seriously wrong. A member of the crew is suddenly missing and the stern-to-stern search only serves to increase tension. Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is in danger. Is the Campari a victim of modern day piracy? And what of the strange cargo hidden below the decks?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melindam

3,5 stars The audiobook is very well narrated by Ciaran Saward. Die Hard on a luxury cruise boat in the 1960s. So, we have the hand-picked Elite of the Elite enjoying a luxury cruise on the Caribbean without a care in the world, or so they think. They are actually congratulating themselves on being o......more

Goodreads review by Lahar

Reviewing books is a bit like a Rorschach Test- you tease out things that you want to see, and ignore others that don't seem terribly important to you. No two people ever approach a book in quite the same way- those familiar twins, Context and Subjectivity, shape every review you make. Being fully aw......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan

I was 16 years old when I discovered Alistair Maclean. Actually this book was first read in Reader's Digest Condensed Books, and I didn't really appreciate it. But then when I really 'tasted' Maclean - you have to be the right age, and have the right education, to appreciate classical writers like A......more

Goodreads review by Lenny

Perfect MacLean. His best work was done in the '50's and '60's. I thoroughly enjoyed this one from start to finish. I slowed down on purpose to stretch it out. Here are quotes from the book: "I couldn't make it; reasons, instinct, logic, common sense all told me I couldn't make it, but I made it." "It......more

Quotes

‘Glorious and solid in every possible way’ Lee Child ‘Alistair MacLeans’s best…pure entertainment, wonderfully fast’ Daily Telegraph ‘MacLean is a master of this kind of action novel’ Evening Standard ‘In my opinion, his best ever. The pace is dazzling, the sea atmosphere superb’ Sunday Express ‘Grippingly suspenseful… ends with a supra-titanic bang’ Time 'Mr MacLean's grip on his story and characters is superb… His climax is murderous on the nerves' Sunday Telegraph