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Fear Is the Key

  • Alistair MacLean

3.00

3 ratings

A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style.A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead – but only after he had avenged their murders.

Genres

  • Fiction in English
  • Fiction
  • Thriller
  • Fiction, action & adventure
  • Criminals, fiction
  • Mexico, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • English literature
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About the author

  • Alistair MacLean

    28 April 1922 - 2 February 1987

    3.64

    47 ratings · 281 works

Editions

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    Fontana

    1966

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    Collins

    1961

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    Fawcett Gold Medal

    1961

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    Fontana, HarperCollins

    1980

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Fontana

1963

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    HarperCollins

    2008

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    New Ed edition

    Fontana Press

    May 2004

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    Fontana Press

    May 2004

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    Fontana

    1968

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    Fawcett

    June 12, 1984

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    Fawcett

    August 12, 1981

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    HarperCollins Publishers Limited

    2019

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    Collins

    1978

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    Large Print Ed.

    Thorpe

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    American Reprint Co.

    1975

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    Heron Books

    1973

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    Collins

    1961

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    [1st ed.]

    Doubleday

    1961

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    Large print ed.

    Chivers

    1989

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    Large printed.

    F.A. Thorpe

    1969

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    Chivers Audio Books

    January 1996

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    Fontana

    1979

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    Collins

    1961

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    Fontana

    1963

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    Fawcett

    July 12, 1983

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    HarperCollins Publishers Inc

    1969

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    HarperCollins Publishers Inc

    1969