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The Golden Gate

By: Alistair MacLean
Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
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About this listen

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…

©1963 Devoran Trustees Ltd (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers Action & Adventure Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Political Spies & Politics Suspense Technothrillers Thriller Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Espionage Crime Detective Technology San Francisco

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Critic reviews

‘Startlingly good…tense…ingenious’
Sunday Express

‘Alistair MacLean is a magnificent storyteller’
Sunday Mirror
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Typical late era Maclean. Really irritating voice artist who has absolutely no range. I must make a note not to buy anything more read by him.

Typical Maclean

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I’m a big fan of Alistair MacLean so I’m happy to see some of his stories on Audible. Jonathan Oliver is very good, I think he also narrated some Sean Dillon stories. My request is - when can we expect The Golden Rendezvous?

Good solid story

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The performance by Jonathan Oliver is excellent, with clear diction and a clear range of accents to distinguish the characters. This enhanced the story.

The adventure is compelling and very much a ‘page turner’. Not one I’d heard of before, but I really enjoyed it.

Cracking story

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I hadn’t read the Golden Gate for many years so when I saw it come up I thought, let’s go for it. I wish personally I hadn’t. I wish the characters voices had stayed in my head and imagination not what the narrator did to them. Killed it stone dead. Ruined a really good book from memory. Can’t get beyond 40 minutes.

What a disapointment

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