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Forbidding ingenious commandos, highs, stunning agents, unlimited action, and neck -taking story twists get this to the traditional journey thriller—the type of page-turner that visitors really will discover difficult to place down. A group of British Special Forces commandos parachutes into the high mountains of the Austrian Alps with the objective of robbing into an invulnerable alpine castle—accessible just by aerial gondola—the headquarters of Nazi intelligence. Allegedly submitted to save one of the own, their actual objective works out to be always a much more complicated—and the strain increases as associates begin to die-off, one by one. Compiled by Alistair Maclean, writer of the Guns of Navarone, this is actually the book that set the speed for the current action-thriller (the movie type, with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, also assisted), and it still packs twice the impact on most present-day best selling thrillers.