The Golden Gate
Alistair Maclean
Hardcover
(Compass Hardcover, May 1, 2001)
Travelling from San Fransisco, the Presidential motorcade is waylaid by an unusual criminal in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge. A reign of civilised terror follows, the kidnappers hoping to collect a king's ransom for the president of the US and the two visiting Middle Eastern heads of state. The world watches the drama via a comandeered TV network as the kidnappers wire explosives to the towers of the bridge to stage their second threat: plunging the Golden Gate into the deep waters of San Francisco Bay.