The Golden Gate

Format:

Book

Title:

The Golden Gate

Author:

MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987, author.

ISBN:

9780385116473

Edition:

First edition in the United States of America.

Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 22 cm

Summary:

An ingenious, puzzlingly motivated megalomaniac and his hand-chosen, professional cohorts hold the President of the United States, two Middle Eastern heads of State, and a motorcade of reporters in the middle of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, demanding an exorbitant ransom, and threatening to kill them if their demands are not met.

Subject(s):

Kidnapping -- Fiction.

Presidents -- United States -- Fiction.

Terrorism -- Fiction.

Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.

California.

California -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate Bridge.

United States.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Added Corporate Author:

Doubleday & Company, Inc.,

Electronic Access:

Free eBook from the Internet Archive
Additional information and access via Open Library

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Author Notes

Alistair MacLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland on April 28, 1922. During World War II, he served in the Royal Navy. He graduated with a degree in English from Glasgow University. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a teacher.

He wrote numerous books including HMS Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, Dark Crusader, Satan Bug, Captain Cook: A Biography, and Santorini. He also wrote The Black Shrike and The Satan Bug under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. Several of his books were adapted into movies including The Secret Ways, Fear Is the Key, and When Eight Bells Toll. He also wrote several original screenplays including Breakheart Pass and conceived an adventure drama for television entitled The Hostage Towers.

He died of heart failure on February 2, 1987 at the age of 64.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

MacLean reuses the assassination-attempt formula, cuts himself in on a high stake game, and plays it for all it's worth--a half a billion dollars. More than traffic is stopped on the Golden Gate bridge when the motorcade of the president of the US, an Arab king and an Arab prince, and two ministers are halted by a real megalomaniac, Peter Branson, whose asking demands are $300,000,000 for their lives and $200,000,000 for the bridge--wired to go off. ""Good God."" ""He won't help."" But Paul Revson, plain-clothes FBI super-operative is on hand to deactivate the mechanisms, frighten off all of Branson's aides, and surprise Branson himself during the televised spectacular held mid-stream, you might say. 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. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.