"Santorini" by Alistair MacLean

This political detective story begins when individuals aboard the British army frigate Ariadne – certainly one of NATO’s most superior vessels of its time (the ebook is written in 1986) witness the crash of a mysterious airplane they can not determine. Engulfed in flames, it sinks within the Aegean, within the neighborhood of Thera Island. About the identical time they witness the final minutes of the airplane they obtain a SOS message from a sinking non-public yacht, additionally burning badly after an explosion. They arrive simply in time to rescue six survivors from the yacht, however there may be no one to rescue from the airplane.

Commander Talbot and his in a position crew members – and later, Vice Admiral Hawkins – got down to examine an disagreeable plot involving extremely positioned army workers of the Pentagon. From the start they began suspecting one of many rescued survivors – the yacht proprietor Andropulous – of being one thing completely different from what he claims. Later, their suspicions get confirmed in essentially the most horrible manner.

The sunken airplane presents an actual downside, its cargo consisting of atomic and hydrogen bombs and a timing system ticking. Ought to they get detonated, they may trigger, aside from their very own lethal impact, a powerful eruption of a close-by volcano and an earthquake. The results is likely to be apocalyptic…

However, evidently, our courageous and in each manner admirable males stop the disaster. They at all times do in books. Too unhealthy it isn’t that simple in actual life – for instance when oil will get spilled into the water and no one is aware of plug the opening. Commander Talbot and Leutenant Denholm may recommend one thing, in the event that they had been actual.

The ebook itself is filled with humour and reads in a single go. The plot is completely thrilling; the writer’s language flows with ease; the character are, as I stated above, admirable, every in his personal manner, and even the villains are considerably amusing. Laborious to imagine these persons are speaking a few doable disaster that can destroy many of the world if they do not stop it: you’d have thought they mentioned a picnic. The writer mentions the Russians just a few occasions – in the way in which typical for the Chilly Battle occasions, however jokingly, so I by no means as soon as felt damage or offended, however grinned each time.

Who will just like the ebook? All those that like political thrillers, for certain, although, maybe, it isn’t robust sufficient. As I am studying in Wikipedia, it is the final work by the writer, written only a 12 months earlier than he died, and that his newest works had been obtained by the critics with much less approval than his earlier ones. Properly, I have not seen the remainder of them but, so it is exhausting to evaluate. Even when the plot is certainly inconceivable, because the critics declare, it’s, at the very least, amusing and has given me just a few nice hours of studying.

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