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MacLean, Alistair - South by Java Head
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SOUTH BY JAVA HEAD

"Excitements come and go at breathless speed charged with superhuman courage, skill and Stamina."
The Times

"Gripping. The action is fast and furious. Alistair MacLean is an outstanding writer of descriptive prose." Birmingham Mail

Available in Fontana by the same author

The Satan Bug
The Guns of Navarone
Ice Station Zebra
Fear is the Key
H.M.S. Ulysses
The Last Frontier
Night Without End
The Golden Rendezvous
The Dark Crusader
When Eight Bells Toll
Bear Island
Caravan to Vaccares
Force 10 from Navarone
Puppet on a Chain
Where Eagles Dare

ALISTAIR MACLEAN

South by Java Head

FONTANA / Collins

First published in 1958 by Wiffiam Collins Sons & Co Ltd First issued in Fontana Books 1961 Thirty-fifth Impression January 1980

© Alistair MacLean 1958

Made and printed in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, Glasgow

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CONDITIONS OF SALE

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that to which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

CHAPTER ONE

CHOKING, DENSE, impenetrable, the black smoke lay pall-like over the dying city. Every building, every office-block and house, the intact and the bomb-shattered alike, was invested by it, swathed in the dark anonymity of its gently swirling cocoon. Every street, every alley, every dock-side basin was full of it, drowned by it. It lay everywhere, sulphurous and evil, scarcely moving in the soft airs of the tropical night.