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| Original Title: | The Satan Bug |
| ISBN: | 0002226154 (ISBN13: 9780002226158) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) |
Alistair MacLean
Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.7 | 2400 Users | 83 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Satan Bug |
| Author | : | Alistair MacLean |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | 1967 by HarperCollins (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Adventure. Crime. Suspense. Science Fiction |
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To the outside world, the Mordon Labs existed solely for experiments in preventive medicine… but in reality they were secret laboratories for the development of germ warfare. The most carefully hidden secret was the Satan Bug -- a strain of toxin so deadly that the release of one teaspoon could annihilate mankind.Late one night, the Mordon security officer was found murdered outside that lab.
And the Satan Bug was missing...
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Ratings: 3.7 From 2400 Users | 83 ReviewsWrite-Up Out Of Books The Satan Bug
It's pretty good. I would've given it 4 stars had it been some other authorIn the beginning it's pretty intriguing. It has some great thrills here and there, with a surprisingly believable end-of-the-world plot that you don't see in other books of this sort. Characters are pretty cool, there are some nice twists at the end of some of the chapters.Now that I think of it, this book has EVERY SINGLE element of a GREAT spy/detective thriller. It's just that the components aren't glued together veryOne of two books that MacLean wrote under the pseudonym "Ian Stuart" in the early 60s, supposedly as to prove that his by then established name was not the only thing that made his stories popular. Apparently, he was soon found out and the books issued under his name. Even so, this and "The Dark Crusader" are a bit odd ones out among the extremely well-known titles of his early bibliography. Or maybe I'm imagining that. Either way, this is a suspenseful and effective thriller, with the theft of
I believe this book was originally released under a pseudonym, Ian Stuart. I only read it for the first time a year or two back. I thought it was good, but not one of MacLean's best. Since then, I have discovered a few reviews and it seems that The Satan Bug is highly-regarded in MacLean circles.Released in 1962, the novel is about the theft of an indestructible virus that presents a threat to mankind. The only way to stop it is with a typically cynical MacLean hero, Cavell!Good fun nowadays,
I was a huge fan of MacLean as a kid and teenager. He, along with Jack London and Robert A. Heinlein, were my favorite authors back then. I wasn't sure what rereading these as an adult would be like. I'm probably not as forgiving for MacLean's verbosity as I was as a kid. And there's certainly some dated gender attitudes. But overall, I'm happy to say that it was still a fun and gripping read.
Interesting to see that biological weapons were as much of a threat 50 years ago as they are today. SPOILER ALERT: The actual "Satan Bug" is largely a MacGuffin here for what is basically a whodunit with a little action at the end, rather than an espionage or political thriller. This is also the second MacLean book I know of where the defeated bad guy chooses the "honorable" path and kills himself by jumping out of a plane rather than face trial - not sure if this is some quaint British code of
I recall seeing the film of this novel back in the 1960s, a viewing which first drew my attention to the threat of biological weapons as a form of warfare. While I have learnt a lot about these weapons in the intervening years, I did not add to my knowledge by reading this book. It is a thriller with biological weapons as an element. Worse is that MacLean revisits the plot of this novel in Goodbye California (1978) with atomic bombs and Islamic terrorists taking the place of botulism and anti
To be honest... I had expected more because I'd read somewhere that his writing is as good as James Patterson's. The book's starting drags on like crazy and you'll feel like keeping the book aside and never finishing it...This is how I felt... Others might have felt differently
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