San Andreas

San Andreas (1985) – Alistair Maclean (Fontana edition)

Another slab of chilly wartime suspense from Alistair Maclean, the man who brought you Where Eagles Dare and Ice Station Zebra. This time, the action takes place aboard a crippled British hospital ship in the freezing North Atlantic during WWII. Sabotage, spies, stormy seas, and the inevitable stiff-upper-lip heroics unfold in classic Maclean fashion.

This particular copy? A well-thumbed Fontana paperback from 1985 – the pages have yellowed nobly with age, the spine’s probably seen more creases than a navy hammock, and it smells faintly of every damp bookshop you’ve ever loved. In short: the perfect condition for a Crappy Old Book.

For fans of cold seas, colder plots, and the kind of prose that barrels along like a depth charge.

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