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The Satan Bug
- Author
- Alistair MacLean
- Narrator
- Mark Meadows
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 30 January 2024
- Run Time
- 10 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Gripping and tense story of secret agents, even more secret government facilities, and a deadly virus, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
Mordon Chemical Research Centre: an ultra top secret facility hidden in the English countryside and one of the most secure places in the world. But now it has been broken into and the Satan Bug, the deadliest toxin in the world, has been stolen.
Private detective Pierre Cavell is recruited by the British Secret Service to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that not everyone is who they seem.
And then a letter is sent giving the authorities just 72 hours to meet the thief’s outrageous demands. There is no way they can pay the ransom, but if they refuse he will release the virus…
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Details
- Author
- Alistair MacLean
- Narrator
- Mark Meadows
- Duration
- 10 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 January 2024
- ISBN
- 9780008367442
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Espionage and spy thriller, Medical thriller, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Technothriller, Adventure / action fiction, Political / legal thriller, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Narrative theme: health and illness
Synopsis
Gripping and tense story of secret agents, even more secret government facilities, and a deadly virus, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Mordon Chemical Research Centre: an ultra top secret facility hidden in the English countryside and one of the most secure places in the world. But now it has been broken into and the Satan Bug, the deadliest toxin in the world, has been stolen. Private detective Pierre Cavell is recruited by the British Secret Service to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that not everyone is who they seem. And then a letter is sent giving the authorities just 72 hours to meet the thief’s outrageous demands. There is no way they can pay the ransom, but if they refuse he will release the virus…
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