The Golden Gate (1976)

by Alistair MacLean

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A 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...… (more)

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Dermot_Butler | Nov 8, 2023 |

Not the best from Alistair - pretty lame ending - actually pretty lame novel all around ... (

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donhazelwood | Mar 11, 2022 |

Really Gripping, extensively narrated. I loved this book on a whole. (

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Prateek.Agarwal | Oct 20, 2019 |

Peter Branson has the brains and the means of carrying out this latest "job." Escaping at the end will be easy compared to holding the President hostage and bringing down the Golden Gate Bridge.
But he (literally) misses a single detail - and his plan is now in danger of being what comes crashing down. (

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lcarter11 | Oct 23, 2017 |

Another excellent read. High tension, fast pace.

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MacLean reuses the assassination-attempt formula, cuts himself in on a high stake game, and plays it for all it's worth ... the Golden Gate bridge ... the president of the US, an Arab king ... an Arab prince, two ministers ... a real megalomaniac (Peter Branson) [and] Paul Revson, plain-clothes FBI super-operative. Barely there is a pretty press correspondent April Wednesday, but then there's not much time for her while there's lots else to usurp the attention of MacLean's steady transceivership.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Alistair MacLean	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Hellström, Lars Gustav	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Pekkanen, Hilkka	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Five cased novels: The Golden Gate, Force 10 From Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, The Golden Rendezvous, The Guns of Navarone. by Alistair MacLean

Floodgate / The Golden Gate by Alistair MacLean

Force 10 from Navarone / When Eight Bells Toll / The Golden Gate by Alistair MacLean

Where Eagles Dare/ Partisans / The Golden Gate / Caravan to Vacares / Goodbye California / Force 10 from Navarone by Alistair MacLean

Four Great Adventure Stories (When Eight Bells Toll / The Golden Gate / Caravan to Vaccares / Circus) by Alistair MacLean

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The Golden Gate

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The Golden Gate

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1976

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San Francisco, California, USA

Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, California, USA)

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To Mary Marcelle

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The operation had to be executed with a surgically military precision marked with a meticulousness that matched, in degree if not scope, the Allied landings in wartime Europe. It was.

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A 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...

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