The Satan Bug
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
When a deadly virus of unimaginable destructive power is stolen from a top-secret British government laboratory, the clock begins ticking on a catastrophe that could wipe out every living soul on Earth — and only one man, the tenacious ex-secret agent Pierre Cavell, stands between civilisation and annihilation. The Satan Bug is a masterwork of Cold War paranoia, a relentlessly paced thriller that chronicles the desperate hunt for a fanatical blackmailer who threatens to unleash biological Armageddon unless his impossible demands are met. Written under the pseudonym Ian Stuart, the novel crackles with authenticity and procedural tension, pulling the reader deep into a shadowy world of government secrecy, double-crosses, and moral compromise. Alistair MacLean — the pen behind Ian Stuart — brings his trademark terse, muscular prose and unerring instinct for escalating dread to bear on a premise that feels as chillingly relevant today as it did on first publication in 1962. The novel stands as a bold departure from MacLean's usual nautical and wartime settings, instead presenting a claustrophobic, land-bound nightmare that argues powerfully for the terrifying vulnerability of a world armed with weapons it cannot fully control. For readers who thought they knew every trick in the thriller genre's arsenal, The Satan Bug holds one final, devastating surprise.
Author: Ian Stuart
Format: Hardback
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
When a deadly virus of unimaginable destructive power is stolen from a top-secret British government laboratory, the clock begins ticking on a catastrophe that could wipe out every living soul on Earth — and only one man, the tenacious ex-secret agent Pierre Cavell, stands between civilisation and annihilation. The Satan Bug is a masterwork of Cold War paranoia, a relentlessly paced thriller that chronicles the desperate hunt for a fanatical blackmailer who threatens to unleash biological Armageddon unless his impossible demands are met. Written under the pseudonym Ian Stuart, the novel crackles with authenticity and procedural tension, pulling the reader deep into a shadowy world of government secrecy, double-crosses, and moral compromise. Alistair MacLean — the pen behind Ian Stuart — brings his trademark terse, muscular prose and unerring instinct for escalating dread to bear on a premise that feels as chillingly relevant today as it did on first publication in 1962. The novel stands as a bold departure from MacLean's usual nautical and wartime settings, instead presenting a claustrophobic, land-bound nightmare that argues powerfully for the terrifying vulnerability of a world armed with weapons it cannot fully control. For readers who thought they knew every trick in the thriller genre's arsenal, The Satan Bug holds one final, devastating surprise.