Alistair MacLean · 1961 · sea

Alistair MacLean's 1961 thriller. His wife, son and brother murdered in a plane shot down over the Gulf of Mexico, John Talbot stages a wild courtroom escape and a kidnapping that look like the acts of a madman. In truth he is steering a gang of killers toward an oil rig off the Florida coast - and the sunken wreck on the sea bed that holds his revenge.

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   Marble Springs

   In the sleepy Florida town of Marble Springs, John Talbot erupts in a courtroom, shoots his way free and seizes a hostage - a wild, seemingly senseless rampage that is in truth the opening move in a long and coldly planned revenge.

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   The Gulf of Mexico

   Forcing his way in among the very men he means to destroy, Talbot is carried out across the Gulf of Mexico toward their secret operation - all the while steering them, unknowing, toward the thing they least want found.

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   The oil rig

   Far offshore stands the drilling rig, and on the sea bed beneath it lies the wreck of the plane that carried Talbot's family and a fortune to their deaths - and there, among the killers, he closes his trap and takes his reckoning.