# Fear is the Key

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- Book: [Fear is the Key](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-maclean/fear-is-the-key) ([Fear is the Key.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-maclean/fear-is-the-key.md))
- Authors: [Alistair MacLean](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-maclean)
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- ISBN: 978-00-0833-742-1
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2019-09-19
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it. Off the Gulf of Mexico lies a sunken DC-3. Its cargo: millions of dollars in gold ingots and jewels guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune is there for the taking, and ready to grab it are a wealthy oilman, a gangster and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stands Talbot, a man out for justice. He will see the dead given a proper burial – but only after he has avenged their murders.