The listing, FLOODGATE by Alistair MacLean [Hardcover] has ended.
CAVEAT EMPTOR: THE BOOK IS IN GREAT SHAPE, BUT MY DAD SIGNED THE INSIDE COVER WHEN HE FIRST BOUGHT THE BOOK...SORRY!
An Irish terrorist organization, known as the "FFF" has detonated a bomb, which bursts dykes in the Netherlands, causing massive flooding of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Unless their demands are met (i.e. immediate withdrawal of all British military forces from Northern Ireland), they threaten to detonate more bombs, flooding Holland beneath a wall of water from the North Sea.
Detective Lieutenant Peter van Effen, a man with a sardonic sense of humor and many hidden talents, and his fuzzy-minded boss, Chief of Police De Graaf, are called in. Lieutenant Van Effen is also an undercover operative with connections to a Dutch criminal gang, and sets about to sabotage the FFF terrorists, one way or another.