Santorini (novel)

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Santorini

1986 USA paperback cover
Author Alistair MacLean
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Thriller Novel
Publisher Doubleday
(Paperback by Fontana-Collins)
Publication date 1986
Media type Print
Pages 224 pp.
ISBN 0006174531
Preceded by San Andreas
Followed by none

Santorini is the final novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1986.

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While on station in the Aegean Sea under the guise of a hydrographic survey mission, the crew of Royal Navy electronic intelligence vessel HMS Ariadne witnesses two disasters at once, a mysterious strategic bomber crashing into the sea and a large pleasure yacht on fire and sinking. The plane turns out to have been loaded with nuclear weapons, and the survivors rescued from the yacht (who include a wealthy Greek tycoon) appear somehow connected with the plane's destruction. With potential saboteurs aboard, Commander Talbot and the crew of the Ariadne must raise the one activated weapon before it can explode, setting off the others by sympathetic detonation and causing the nearby volcano of Santorini to explode in a tremendous eruption which would bring on a devastating tsunami and possibly a worldwide nuclear winter.

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