High Citadel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — visible creasing, tears, and wear to edges and corners of the dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding condition: Appears intact.
A gripping high-altitude thriller, High Citadel by Desmond Bagley chronicles the desperate struggle for survival of a group of passengers whose plane is forced down in the treacherous Andes mountains of South America. Stranded in the freezing, remote peaks and hunted by Communist insurgents, the survivors must improvise medieval weapons from the wreckage to defend themselves — a premise that delivers relentless, edge-of-your-seat tension. Bagley, a master of the action-adventure genre, presents a tale that is as much about human ingenuity and courage under pressure as it is about physical survival. The novel stands as one of the finest examples of British adventure fiction from the 1960s, cementing Bagley's reputation alongside contemporaries such as Alistair MacLean.
Author: Desmond Bagley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Collins
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — visible creasing, tears, and wear to edges and corners of the dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding condition: Appears intact.
A gripping high-altitude thriller, High Citadel by Desmond Bagley chronicles the desperate struggle for survival of a group of passengers whose plane is forced down in the treacherous Andes mountains of South America. Stranded in the freezing, remote peaks and hunted by Communist insurgents, the survivors must improvise medieval weapons from the wreckage to defend themselves — a premise that delivers relentless, edge-of-your-seat tension. Bagley, a master of the action-adventure genre, presents a tale that is as much about human ingenuity and courage under pressure as it is about physical survival. The novel stands as one of the finest examples of British adventure fiction from the 1960s, cementing Bagley's reputation alongside contemporaries such as Alistair MacLean.