“A small, dusty man in a small, dusty room.” 
The Satan Bug is my favorite. There is a description, near the beginning of the novel, of what would happen if the Satan Bug escapes that is genuinely frightening, at least to my ten year old mind.
I also read Circus, Fear is the Key, Puppet on a Chain, Force 10 From Navarone, and The Guns of Navarone, but I lost my taste for it without getting to Ice Station Zebra or his more famous ones. Maybe I will remedy the lack.
Regards,
Shodan
Even as a youngster - not even a teen, but close I think - I read the one about the racing drivers and thought it was rubbish. I was all Tolkien-ed up at that point anyway, and put away childish thoughts of wanting to be a hero living in an imaginary univ…OH HOLD ON.
The Way to Dusty Death.
Headlights on a formula V.
He was losing it by then.
You can almost rank his works by date. The earliest novels were great and tailed off around ‘Puppet’ to become formulaic pap. Nice shout-out to Hammond Innes - like Eric Ambler in not getting enough credit for good work.
Suffice it to say I have read every single title mentioned in this thread.
I’ve read them all too, but deplore the failing quality of his later books. Apart from the war books, his best were the first person narrative thrillers, in my opinion. I couldn’t believe that the author of * HMS Ulysses * would describe "HMS Ariadne " as being a courtesy nod to the Greeksbecause the Royal Navy was in a NATO exercise with them in *Santorini *.