Alistair MacLean's "Golden Girl"

Alistair Mac Lean's "Golden Girl" #1

by Simon Gandolfi

THEY WANT HIM DEAD-THIRTEEN YEARS OLD,BEARER OF A LETHAL SECRET A plane crashes,carrying a cargo of cocaine-the pilot dead,no witnesses,except a boy fishing for lobster.The boy buries the cocaine,terror keeps him silent. So begins Simon Gandolfi's exceptional thriller.Set in the Caribbean,WHITE SANDSis full of extraordinary characters:Jacket Bride,the thirteen-year-old boy with a fantastic dream in his heart,and a lethal secret in his head.Skelley,the island police chief with an implacable loathing for drug runners.Charity,the formidable schoolteacher. And ex-British intelligence agent Trent,who leaves his catamaran GOLDEN GIRL to help in an operation where one person alone holds the key:a child with an adult secret,hunted for his life.

Genres: Thriller

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Jason Waltz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm giving this 4 stars because - even though it took its sweet time getting somewhere - dang, did it ramp and amp up hard when it got going! Last half of this book is pretty dang good spy thriller dynamite, and our hero Trent seems a rather decent bloke. I wasn't sure I'd track the rest of these Golden Girl books down, but now I believe I will.