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He eventually wrote seven novels based on MacLean synopses and has also written five novels under his own name. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.

He wrote numerous books including HMS Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, Dark Crusader, Satan Bug, Captain Cook: A Biography, and Santorini. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.

They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Several of his books were adapted into movies including The Secret Ways, Fear Is the Key, and When Eight Bells Toll.

It felt very bitty, with loads of characters being introduced and the story moving along at a glacial place. By sharing the technology that has grown World of Books Group into the business it is today, we're helping charities increase revenue and reduce waste through re-commerce. Walls were still pockmarked with bullet holes and there were a lot of ex-military personnel armed with machine pistols working as bodyguards for wealthy businessmen as kidnapping was rife in the country at the time.The manuscript was sent to Collins publishers and ended up on the desk of Marjorie Chapman, the wife of Ian Chapman who'd 'discovered' Alistair MacLean. By using eBid, you agree to our use of cookies to enhance your experience in accordance with our updated Privacy Policy of 25th May 2018. So it's good for what it is, but it's really not very much more than a series of inconsequential gunfights capped with a sudden, but entirely predictable betrayal.

I was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1960 and moved with my parents to East London in South Africa when I was six years old. What is especially rich is that none of these skills are ever put into play during the novel, Strike Force Three brawls like drunks at a bar and show no particular ability with firearms. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser gave him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955.

I first started writing vignettes and short stories in my teens, mainly for school magazines, and this blossomed into a love of writing.