When Eight Bells Toll

from bnielsen

Skotland, ca 1966 Adskillige skibe er forsvundet i rum sø, S/S Holmwood, M/S Antara, M/S Headley Pioneer, S/S Hurricane Spray og senest M/S Nantesville. Besætningerne er blevet fuppet af "forliste" søfolk, som ved nærmere bekendtskab viser sig at være bevæbnede pirater. Efter et par dages fangesk...

from scottcholstad

This book was pretty good, but not MacLean's best. It's an action/thriller set at sea featuring British Secret Service agent Peter Calvert and his boss, Admiral Sir Arthur Arnford-Jason, called Uncle Arthur for some reason. Calvert is witty, but is also a cold blooded killer. He's also a bit of a...

from williemeikle

This is my favorite of all of MacLean's thrillers, and not just because it is set in my native Scotland.MacLean's books often rely of a big twist near the end. In many of the lesser books, Bear Island for example, you can see it coming from far away. But in WEBT, he keeps things taut, and the act...

from jeffome

Enjoyed this adventure quite a bit. Of course, I had to guess where it was taking place, and eventually figured it out.....but MacLean has a way of creating a main character that you feel you know very well by the end, and more importantly, you really like him. Calvert does not take himself too s...

from delta61

"When Eight Bells Toll" is a spy novel. It is characteristic of that genre written in the 50's. If you replaced the main character Calvert with James Bond, you would get a similar take on the book. It involves piracy on the coast of Scotland with the Secret Service to the rescue. The first part r...