Force 10 from Navarone [Mass Market Paperback]

Alistair Maclean (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 12, 1984

The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. Now reissued in a new cover style.The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are parachuting into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of Partisans … and to fulfil a secret mission, so deadly that it must be hidden from their own allies.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

‘Compulsively exciting.’Daily Telegraph‘Cliff-hanging suspense.’Sunday Telegraph‘Terrific dambusting climax.’Evening Standard‘A smash hit.’Daily Mirror --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

About the Author

Alistair 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 recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Fawcett (June 12, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449205746
• ISBN-13: 978-0449205747
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,763,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Why don't they write good thrillers anymore?, April 12, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Force 10 from Navarone (Mass Market Paperback)

I read _Force 10_ before I read _Guns_, and loved them both. They're genre pieces, and there are predictable elements of plot and character, but if you take that for granted, they fulfill your expectations very well. _Force 10_ lacks the classic, simple story of _Guns_, but has a wonderful combination of humor and action, as well as a truly stunning climax. There seems to have been some revisionist history between the publication of the first book and the sequel -- Dusty Miller is inexplicably altered (for the better) from an unbelievable, constantly drawling American to an elegant and unflappable Brit (a bit reminiscent of John Steed from the Avengers). There IS a woman in this book -- not Ripley, admittedly, but she does more than look pretty and get rescued (yeah, she does that too).

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Sequel to The Guns of Navarone, February 18, 2006

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D. S. Thurlow (Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Force 10 from Navarone (Mass Market Paperback)

In "Force Ten from Navarone", author Alistair Maclean reunites us with the three main characters from "The Guns of Navarone" just after the completion of their desperate commando mission in the Greek Isles of the Second World War. However, there is no rest for the exhausted heroes, who are promptly launched on another mission by their boss in the British Special Operations Executive.

Reinforced by a group of young British Commandos, the new team is parachuted into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia and right into the midst of a three way conflict between the Germans and several Yugoslav factions who are also engaged in a civil war. The team's mission is to traverse the war-torn country, navigating between the warring factions, and destroy a huge dam that is the key to a planned German offensive.

The heroes from Navarone are world-weary, and wary, warriors compared to the young and enthusiastic commandos with whom they are teamed, but all will have to pull together if they are to survive a series of betrayals and mishaps. Maclean has provided a typically twisted plot that produces surprises and suspense to the very end. Maclean's excellent and sardonic dialogue is matched with a good sense of place for war-torn Yugoslavia. This novel is infinitely more entertaining than the movie of the same title starring Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw, with which it shares not a whole lot more than a title.

This book is highly recommended to fans of Alistair Maclean, and to readers looking for an entertaining novel.

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a good MacLean Novel..., April 2, 2011

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Clerk02 "Clerk02" (Pittsburgh PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goodbye for Now: A Novel (Audio CD)

Unlike other reviewers, I found the plot confusing and unfocused.

I think MacLean rushed a first draft into print too soon.

Not recommended.