It was a suicide mission. An entire navy had tried to silence the German gun emplacement at Navarone...and failed. Full-scale atacks had been driven back. Now they were sending in just five men, each of them a specialist in dealing death, experts at slitting throats, scaling walls or blowing bridges. Led by Keith Mallory, Alpine cragsman and saboteur, this team aimed to accomplish the impossible...or die. Or both.

-from bookseller descriptions