Force 10 From Navarone (novel)
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| Author | Alistair MacLean |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | World War II Novel |
| Publisher | Collins |
| Released | 1968 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 255 (1969 Fawcett paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | Where Eagles Dare |
| Followed by | Puppet on a Chain |
Force 10 from Navarone is a 1968 World War II novel by Alistair MacLean. It is a sequel to MacLean's very popular 1957 The Guns of Navarone, but in terms of plot continuity chooses to follow the also popular 1961 film adaptation, such as including characters who were in the film but not in the book, although it dispenses with the film's major altered backstory.
The book was commercially very successful, spending five months on the New York Times Bestseller List and being chosen as a Literary Guild Alternate Selection.
This novel was itself adapted into the 1978 film Force 10 from Navarone, although they shared little other than title.
[edit] Plot summary
The novel begins immediately after the events portrayed in The Guns of Navarone, with Captain Keith Mallory and Corporal Dusty Miller assigned on a new mission code-named "Force 10". Mallory and Miller return to Navarone to recruit their comrade Andrea Stavros (who stayed behind in the film, but not in the book). They are then joined by three young British Royal Marine Commandos, led by the brash Sergeant Reynolds, and are sent to frozen, war-torn Yugoslavia. There they attempt to aid the Yugoslav Partisans in their battle against the Nazi German occupiers and Chetnik collaborators. As usual with MacLean, all things are not quite what they seem, but action is focused on an attempt to demolish a strategically important bridge over the Neretva River in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
