Floodgate

by Alistair Maclean

Collins, 1983 [First Edition], ISBN 0002227541, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, previous owners bookplate on front end-paper, Mylar protected dust-jacket (see photographs)

"Amsterdam Schiphol airport is under floodwater.  Aircraft are trapped and silent.  This is the opening scene in Floodgate, Alistair Maclean's gripping new adventure story of bombing and blackmail set in Holland, a country vulnerable to flooding.
A sinister terrorist group, the FFF, has caused the chaos.  The aim of the organisation is not to murder.  It is to demonstrate the destruction it can cause by blowing up strategically placed dykes adn so reduce the Netherlands to a state of fear and helplessness.  And ripe for blackmail."