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    San Andreas

    By Alistair MacLean

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 3, 2009
    ISBN9780007289394
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    San Andreas
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    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.

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    • 3/5
      Atlanten, ca 1940Den engelske handelsflåde i 1930erne var præget af dårligt vedligeholdte skibe, dårlige forhold for mandskabet og højt udbytte for rederne. I krigens første år var tabene af skibe og mandskab forfærdelige. De tyske ubåde gik heller ikke ram forbi. Af 40.000 ubådsfolk døde 30.000. I USA opfandt Henry Kaiser Liberty-skibene, bygget af præfabrikerede enheder bygget på fabrikker langt fra havnene. Designet var engelsk og fra 1935.Bogen beskriver liberty-skibet Ocean Belle, der er ombygget til hospitalsskib og omdøbt til San Andreas. Kaptajn Bowen opdager at der er en sabotør ombord. De følges med fregatten HMS Andover, men det er den, der rammes af tre torpedoer og synker som en sten. San Andreas bliver ramt af lette bomber fra et Focke-Wulf Condor 200 og næsten alle dæksofficerer bliver dræbt. Condoren bliver også ramt og to bliver reddet. Fra Andover reddes kun tre. På San Andreas er kaptajn og overstyrmand kun sårede, men sat ud af spillet, så bådsmanden McKinnon tager styringen.Sabotagen tager fart og San Andreas er uden navigatør, indtil den ene af tyskerne Løjtnant Ulbricht hjælper og fastslår positionen som 68.05 nord og 7.20 øst. De er på vej fra Murmansk til Aberdeen.Skibet ryger ind i en storm og da den stilner af, dukker en u-båd op, som øjensynligt har haft let ved at finde dem. McKinnon narrer u-bådens kaptajn og vædrer u-båden, der synker.Inden når u-bådens besætning at skyde på San Andreas og lægen Dr. Singh dør. Dette afslører at han er en af sabotørerne.Senere afsløres Simmons og McGrimmon også som sabotører og McKinnon gætter at russerne har erstattet en del af ballasten med guldbarrer som betaling for våbenleverancer. Tyskerne er ude på at erobre guldet eller i alt fald forhindre det i at nå frem, men vor tapre helt McKinnon er selvfølgelig smartere end hele den tyske flåde, så de når i havn i hans fødeby Lerwick og han vinder endda oversygeplejerskens hjerte..Middelmådig thriller med et plot, der længe er en gåde.
    • 4/5
      Sometimes the third time really is the charm. So it is with Alistair MacLean and me. I missed MacLean entirely during his heyday when he was one of the world's most popular writers of thrillers, yet I had heard so many good things about his books that I finally decided to give them a try. The first two novels I read, "Partisans" and "Puppet on a Chain," proved disappointing. My third attempt, however, produced different results."San Andreas," published in 1984, is a World War II adventure that takes place entirely aboard a hospital ship in the North Atlantic in winter. Hospital ships, marked with big red crosses, are supposedly neutral, yet the Germans seem determined to stop, if not sink, the San Andreas. One or more saboteurs aboard keep destroying navigational equipment, while planes and submarines attack with relatively light arms, suggesting they want to do damage, but not too much damage. So what's going on?When the ship's captain is badly wounded in one attack, the responsibility for getting the San Andeas to safety falls on Archie McKinnon, the bosun. The hospital ship has no weapons aboard, so McKinnon must defend the ship using the bad weather, the long winter nights and the ship itself. Then there are the problems of finding the saboteurs(s) and getting the ship to a friendly port.McKinnon turns out to be my kind of hero, one who uses brains more than brawn, and the result proves thoroughly entertaining. San Andreas may be the name of a California fault line, but MacLean's novel with that title turned out to be nothing like a disaster.
    • 4/5
      Pretty cool story. It was like a 1960s war/suspense movie in my head. Pretty slow but still good.
    • 4/5
      Lots of action, enough dialog to keep you guessing, who done it at sea. I enjoyed the period this story was set in. I found myself getting tired toward the end and eager for the revealing of who did what. The plot was a little complex for me. Good historical fiction.
    • 4/5
      ook na dit boek diverse malen gelezen te hebben blijft het lekker spannend.
    • 1/5
      Miss Marple in the tea parlor moves faster than this supposed “thriller” novel. San Andreas has a great setup: a Merchant Marine vessel converted to hospital ship is in arctic waters, struggling against impossible weather, with German planes and u-boats circling, and an unknown saboteur onboard reeking havoc – but then it just stalled.The opening long rant against the decrepit state of the Merchant Marine fleet before WWII anchored the somnambulistic tone for rest of this snoozer. First thriller I could only make it halfway through. Sadly this MacLean is not recommended.
    • 4/5
      Set on a hospital ship in Norwegian waters, with a British Merchant Navy crew and a collection of doctors, nurses and orderlies, hunted by German planes and U-boats and not knowing the reason for the pursuit, a saboteur loose, wreaking havoc with the electrical systems, fuel lines, heating and medical supplies.As soon as I began to read I was hooked. This is a World War II adventure thriller that had me jumping from one crew member to another looking for the bad hat, and being proved wrong, usually when another act of sabotage took place. I wasn’t alone, even the main characters were baffled.The feeling of suspense was masterly, and the description of a badly damaged ship in hostile weather conditions was enough to have me shivering for real. But to my mind the dialogue between the characters coupled with the understated humour in the face of the towering odds against them is what turned the whole story into a masterpiece.