When Eight Bells Toll

Front cover:
Master storyteller Alistair MacLean
When Eight Bells Toll
Now a thrilling motion picture

Back cover:
For sheer narrative power, for incredible non-stop action, no one can match Alistair MacLean, today's undisputed master of the adventure novel. WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL out-does even NAVARONE in excitement. ... "MacLean winds his tale tighter and tighter, until only the most strong-willed reader could possibly tear himself away." - Book Week