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Gibraltor Road

(1960)
(The first book in the Commander Shaw series)
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Deep in the heart of Gibraltar, a secret nuclear fuel-production until throbs and hums as it builds up a store of ALG SIX, required for the British atomic submarines to be based there. However, this fuel unit has developed a deadly fault: it cannot be stopped. If it is run beyond a certain point it will produce the biggest atomic blast since Hiroshima. Only Ackroyd, the strange inventor of the unit, can stop it, but he has fallen into the hands of foreign agents operating from Spanish territory. Commander Shaw's job is to get Ackroyd back to Gibraltar before the Rock blows up...

Genre: Thriller

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