The Golden Gate

Alistair MacLean

The President of the United States and two leading Arab Sheikhs have met to discuss their mutual oil interests. On their way across San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge their motorcade is ambushed, and they find themselves held to ransom. Peter Branson, the leader of the kidnappers, demands over five hundred million dollars plus a Presidential pardon, or he will kill the hostages and destroy the bridge. It appears that he holds all the aces, but amongst his hostages is a man who thinks otherwise.