The Golden Rendezvous

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Summary: Simply the best!
Review: Alistair Macean is my favourite thriller writer.Golden Rendouvous is a bonafide classic.Just reading this book reveals what a great plotter Maclean was and he always knew how to combine action suspense and he didn't need to write 500, or 10000 pages, unlike the new writers of today.He had a sense of humour as well and i always thought his characters were colourful.Also,though Maclean did his research thorougly, his books were never bogged down in details, unlike many authors today.Golden Rendevous is a must read!go and read it and make your day!

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Summary: One of Alistair MacLean's Best Adventure Stories
Review: Alistair MacLean - one of the premier adventure storywriters - is at his best when writing first-person narratives that put his protagonists in perilous situations, and then push them to the limits of physical, emotional, and psychological endurance. His early novels are exciting, full of cliff-hanging situations, and rife with clever "detection" in the classical sense: MacLean plays by the classical detective rules, placing all of the clues in front of the reader, and - at his most cunning - daring the reader to figure out who the criminal mastermind is.

But the detection - and the undertones of "espionage" - are superficial elements used to keep the narrative moving briskly along between action set pieces that pit the protagonist against impossible odds and, very often, against the severest imaginable environmental extremes. By these standards, "The Golden Rendezvous" is one of his better books.

It is an excellent blend of mystery, suspense, clever bluffs and double bluffs, self-deprecating wit, action, and our protagonist's determined efforts to overcome painful injuries and antagonistic environmental extremes.

A luxury cruise ship is hijacked at sea by a master criminal whose intention is not a simple ransoming of the wealthy hostages on board. Exactly what his goal is forms part of the mystery that is left for our hero - the injured First Officer of the ship, John Carter - to ferret out. And to undermine.

"The Golden Rendezvous" finds MacLean at near-top form. The book does not have quite the verve of "The Satan Bug", "The Dark Crusader", or "When Eight Bells Toll", but it comes close. Which - at the high level that MacLean delivers excitement and page-turning suspense - makes for outstanding adventure story reading.

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Summary: Classic adventure story about an ocean hijacking
Review: Alistair MacLean was one of the best adventure writers of all time. He does it all on the strength of plot; style and characterization are nearly non-existent, but they aren't the reason you read MacLean books. I dare say that virtually every major adventure plot is covered in one of his novels, and his influence is such that subsequent authors have paid homage to scenes of his. (For example, there's a scene in Clive Cussler's "The Mediterranean Caper" that's a virtual reprise of a scene from "The Secret Ways.")

"The Golden Rendezvous" is a classic ocean hijacking story, where the hero is the ship's First Officer (John Carter). The ship is a converted ocean liner, full of guests, some mysterious, and carrying some secret cargo. During the cruise, the ship gets hijacked by some violent but devious criminals. Some of the ship's officers are killed, and others, including Carter, are wounded. Still, Carter attempts to stop the hijackers. . . .

This is one of the best MacLean novels, written in the 1960s along with a stellar run that includes "The Satan Bug," "Where Eagles Dare," "Puppet on a Chain," and "The Guns of Navarone." Most of those were turned into movies, and in the 1970s, Hollywood adapted "The Golden Rendezvous" into a so-so Richard Harris movie titled "Nuclear Terror."

Rating:
Summary: Classic adventure story about an ocean hijacking
Review: Alistair MacLean was one of the best adventure writers of all time. He does it all on the strength of plot; style and characterization are nearly non-existent, but they aren't the reason you read MacLean books. I dare say that virtually every major adventure plot is covered in one of his novels, and his influence is such that subsequent authors have paid homage to scenes of his. (For example, there's a scene in Clive Cussler's "The Mediterranean Caper" that's a virtual reprise of a scene from "The Secret Ways.")

"The Golden Rendezvous" is a classic ocean hijacking story, where the hero is the ship's First Officer (John Carter). The ship is a converted ocean liner, full of guests, some mysterious, and carrying some secret cargo. During the cruise, the ship gets hijacked by some violent but devious criminals. Some of the ship's officers are killed, and others, including Carter, are wounded. Still, Carter attempts to stop the hijackers. . . .

This is one of the best MacLean novels, written in the 1960s along with a stellar run that includes "The Satan Bug," "Where Eagles Dare," "Puppet on a Chain," and "The Guns of Navarone." Most of those were turned into movies, and in the 1970s, Hollywood adapted "The Golden Rendezvous" into a so-so Richard Harris movie titled "Nuclear Terror."

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Summary: Great!
Review: This book is one of Macleans best. Full of plot twists and action this is a great read.