The Guns of Navarone

Written by Alistair MacLean

Narrated by Jonathan Oliver

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded atop an impregnable iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea.

Twelve hundred British soldiers trapped on a nearby island, with no hope of rescue from Allied ships, waiting to die.

Keith Mallory, world-famous mountaineer, skilled saboteur. His mission: to lead a small team of misfits and silence the guns forever.

Reaching the island and scaling the sheer cliffs undetected will be hard enough; defeating the German forces and destroying the massive guns all but impossible. And as for getting out alive when there may be a traitor in the team…

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Feb 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9780008224387

Alistair MacLean

Alistair MacLean, the son of a minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a teacher. Two and a half years spent aboard a wartime cruiser gave him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.

Reviews for The Guns of Navarone

[S T · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I did not know such a good book could ever have been written

[zurilector · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A classic of the action and adventure novel, which is a page-turner and very entertaining with charismatic protagonists like the climber Mallory, the Greek Andreas, or the explosives expert Miller, has a good pace and is read in one go. It has a sequel titled "Force 10," but in my opinion, it is inferior. (Translated from Spanish)

[Roberpi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Impressive account of an event from the Second World War; there is a movie that, while good, doesn't even come close to this book for any good reader. (Translated from Spanish)