Puppet on a Chain

by Alistair MacLean

Book Overview

From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic.

Paul Sherman of Interpol's Narcotics Bureau flies to Amsterdam on the trail of a dope king.

With enormous skill the atmosphere is built up: Amsterdam with its canals and high houses; stolid police; psychopaths; and above all - murder.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0008337500
• ISBN13: 9780008337506
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

WOW! MacLean never fails............

Alistair MacLean is amazing....... i am hooked to his novels and really dont mind reading them again and again........ Well this one too takes you on a roller coaster ride and my! isnt the end good enough to curl your toes? I highly recommed this thriller and all novels by MacLean....

In the dark and loving it!

This was not the first book of Maclean's that I read, but it was by far the best. This is the best of his keep-you-on-your toes writing. From the very beginning I was drawn in and lost througout the entire book on who the good guys were. This is one of the few books that I was glad to be totally in the dark. It just made the entire experience more enthralling. A short, but powerful book!

The is a great one!

Alistair MacLean really nails this one! It keeps you on edge thoughout the book as the detective tracks down the most dark evil sadistic characters. It is a book once you get into you will never put down until the final page. I firmly believe this one above all of MacLean's works is his best and deserves to be made into a movie. It would really be a supreme thriller! Find a copy and read it yourself.

Brilliant

I thought this book was very well written, it was interesting and had some humour in it as well. Some dialogues between Sherman and his two accomplices (Maggie/Belinda) are really quite funny. Quite scary in parts, very suspensful and a well unravelled plot. Perhaps a bit trite, but still makes for a good read.

knock out!!!!!!!

Easily my favorite book ever! One of the best stories of its genre. Alistair Maclean does a wonderful job of describing Amsterdam. From the moment Paul Sherman arrives at Schiphol, you can feel the tension in the air and thereafter the book is impossible to put down. The canals, the shady characters that abound the story, the helpless victims (Astrid Lemay, her brother George), the ultimate sadists, and their weapons of torture, will make you believe that you are there. If you have read all of Maclean's works but this one, this one is very different in that it brings out the dark side of Maclean's work. Read it and discover it for yourself. You will not regret it!! It's a pity that today's moviemakers do not take a look at this gem and make a movie out of it (there was one done in 1976 and that was not as good as desired). Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, or George Clooney would do a good job of Paul Sherman, I think!