On the small Island of Kheros off the Turkish coast 1,200 British soldiers are trapped and doomed to die unless the venomous, damnably accurate guns of Navarone can be silenced. Navarone, the grim bastion guarding the straits, is manned by a mixed garrison of veteran German and Italian troops - an apparently impregnable iron fortress that is the supreme obstacle to any rescue attempt by the Royal Navy.
To Captain Keith Mallory, a tough, hard-bitten saboteur and trained mountaineer, falls the task of leading the small international party detailed to scale Navarone and to spike its threatening guns. How he accomplished this dangerous mission with Andrea, the Greek giant who was unmatched as a killer, the experienced mountain climber Lieut. Andy Stevens and the redoubtable Dusty Miller, an American with an unequalled knowledge of explosives, is the thrilling and fascinating story of a typical calculated wartime risk.
Here is a gripping story which never falters, full of action and suspense that will hold the reader's interest to the last page.