Okay, I've come up with another one, and checked the overall list of selections, and also nominations in the last six months - in any month that seemed as if it might be applicable. And this title seems clean...
So here goes:
Alistair MacLean was another of my favorite "flashlight-under-the-covers" thriller authors, and probably one of his most famous books is his first,
The Guns of Navarone. What's more, it's quite nicely priced at Kindle UK right now, and not too bad at Kindle US either. And, IMO, it's also among his best, so that's my replacement nomination.
Kindle US, $5.99:
https://www.amazon.com/Guns-Navarone...dp/B0047T6W3Y/
Kindle UK, £0.99:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Navaro...dp/B0047T6W3Y/
Quote:
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Now issued for the first time as an e-book.
Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically accurate. Navarone itself, grim bastion of narrow straits manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians, an apparently impregnable iron fortress. To Captain Keith Mallory, skilled saboteur, trained mountaineer, fell the task of leading the small party detailed to scale the vast, impossible precipice of Navarone and to blow up the guns. The Guns of Navarone is the story of that mission, the tale of a calculated risk taken in the time of war…
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