Authors: Alistair MacLean
ALISTAIR MACLEAN
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Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was born in 1922 and brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 at the age of eighteen he joined the Royal Navy; two-and-a-half years spent aboard a cruiser was later to give him the background for
HMS Ulysses
, his first novel, the remarkable documentary novel on the war at sea. After the war, he gained an English honours degree at Glasgow University, and became a schoolmaster. In 1983 he was awarded a D. Litt. from the same university.
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By the early 1970s he was one of the top 10 bestselling authors in the world, and the biggest-selling Briton. He wrote twenty-nine worldwide bestsellers that have sold more than 30 million copies, and many of which have been filmed, including
The Guns of
Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Fear is the Key
and
Ice Station Zebra
. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century. Alistair MacLean died in 1987 at his home in Switzerland.
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HMS Ulysses
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The Guns of Navarone
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South by Java Head
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The Last Frontier
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Night Without End
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Fear is the Key
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The Dark Crusader
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The Satan Bug
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The Golden Rendezvous
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Ice Station Zebra
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When Eight Bells Toll
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Where Eagles Dare
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Force 10 from Navarone
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Puppet on a Chain
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Caravan to Vaccarès
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Bear Island
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The Way to Dusty Death
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Breakheart Pass
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Circus
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The Golden Gate
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Seawitch
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Goodbye California
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Athabasca
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River of Death
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Partisans
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Floodgate
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San Andreas
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The Lonely Sea (stories)
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Santorini
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published in Great Britain by Collins 1975 then in paperback by Fontana 1977
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