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Kitchener's Gold

(1986)
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In 1916, HMS Hampshire mysteriously sank off the Orkneys...

600 men drowned, including Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, while they were en route to Russia with a cargo of gold and top-secret documents for the Tsar.

Now, seventeen years later, the gold has still not been found. It is a great unsolved mystery of the sea.

Gunnar Creel, an American mystery writer, and Karl Osten, a German deep-sea diver, are both fascinated by the mystery.

Together, they come up with a plan.

This plan sees Creel and Osten embark on an adventure to find the treasure.

But is finding the gold the only adventure Creel and Osten will find themselves on?

Kitchener's Goldis a sensational tale that combines adventure with espionage, murder, love, and mysterious lost treasure.

Praise forKitchener's Gold



'A good yarn with more than a touch of Buchan about it' -Hampstead & Highgate Express

'Throws up some interesting theories on the fate of Kitchener of Khartoum'- Cork Examiner

'Charged with suspense'-Evening News, Edinburgh


Praise for Peter MacAlan



'Well researched and splendidly exciting. Peter MacAlan is a real find' - Frederick Nolan, author of Brass Target

'Nerve-racking entertainment. An engrossing thriller' - Irish Times

A fascinating story, painstakingly researched, and gripping to the last' Manchester Evening News

'Charged with suspense' -Evening News, Edinburgh


Peter MacAlan is one of the pseudonyms under which Peter Berresford Ellis has written. Ellis is a historian, literary biographer and novelist. Born in Coventry, Warwickshire, Ellis began his career as a junior reporter before becoming a full-time writer in 1975. He has published almost 100 books and is also the author over 100 short stories.


Genre: Thriller

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