About Alistair Maclean
Alistair
MacLean was born in Glasgow, the son of Alistair MacLean, a Church of
Scotland minister, and Mary Lamont, a singer. His parents spoke the
Scottish language, Gaelic, and English was
MacLean's second language; at home he was not allowed to speak English.
After completing his Higher Leaving Certificate with passes
in English, History, Latin, Mathematics and Science at Hillhead
High, MacLean took up a post at the shipping office of F.C. Strick. At
the age of eighteen in 1941, he joined the Royal Navy. During World War
II he served as a torpedo man in Home, Mediterranean, and Eastern
Fleets on the HMS Royalist. Much of the time he served on
Russian convoy routes, and from these experiences he drew heavily for
his novels about the sea. "He was a good chap to have around in a tight
situation," recalled one of his shipmates. MacLean claimed that he was
once captured by the Japanese and tortured, but his story has not been
verified. However, in 1946 he returned home.
After the war, MacLean gained an English Honors degree at Glasgow University, and became a teacher at Gallowfleet Secondary School. During his spare time MacLean began writing short stories. In 1954 he entered a short story competition of the Glasgow Herald with the 'Dileas.' It won the first prize of £100.
Novels Of Alistair Maclean
Ice Station Zebra (1963), filmed in 1968, was an espionage story about a British weather-monitoring station on a polar ice cap, which is almost totally destroyed by an oil fire. The United States nuclear submarine Dolphin is sent to rescue the team. The narrator and protagonist is a doctor, but later it turns out that he is not simply a doctor and Ice Station Zebra is not just a neutral research station. In fact Dolphin's quest is to recover a capsule from outer space containing a long-range, top-secret reconnaissance camera and its films.
To catch the story entire story>>Ice Station Zebra.
In Fear is The Key
(1961), a novel of revenge, the protagonist pretends to be a gangster.
The story starts when he shoots his way out of a courtroom, takes a
hostage, and starts his escape. In fact he has conceived an elaborate
plot to track down those responsible for killing his wife and family in
a plane crash. The protagonist has his revenge, but he finally realizes
that he is alone with his victory and memoirs: "X 13. I supposed that
would always be a part of me now, that and the broken-winged DC that
lay 580 yards to its south-west, buried under 480 feet of water. For
better or for worse, it would always be a part of me. For worse, I
thought, for worse. It was all over and done and empty now and it all
meant nothing, for that was all that was left." To catch the story entire story>>Fear is the Key
The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. Now reissued in a new cover style.
The guns of Navarone have been
silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their
laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died
away, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are parachuting into
war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of Partisans … and to fulfil a
secret mission, so deadly that it must be hidden from their own allies.
To catch the story entire story>>Force 10 from Navarone
A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew
across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic
Circle, for some on-location filming, but the script is a secret known
only to the producer and screenwriter.En route, members of the
movie crew and ship's company begin to die under mysterious
circumstances. The crew's doctor, Marlowe, finds himself enmeshed in a
violent, multi-layered plot in which very few of the persons aboard are
whom they claim to be. Bear Island, beyond the reach of the law or outside help. The murders
continue ashore, and Marlowe, who is not what he seems to be either,
discovers they may be related to some forgotten events of the Second
World War.
To catch the story entire story>>Bear Island
Someone wants revenge, and the target is the President’s plane. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO.
To catch the story entire story>>Force 10 from Navarone
To catch the story entire story>>Bear Island
The world’s most ingenious international criminal is bent on revenge…
Two men with the same name and the same faceAnd six of the most important men in the world aboard the President’s plane…
Who pushed the button that destroyed Air Force One?
Why must everyone be killed?
Are they really dead?In this game of deception only UNACO and its daring team can be trusted to join the gamble - but can they win?
To catch the story entire story>>Air Force One is Down.
Two men with the same name and the same faceAnd six of the most important men in the world aboard the President’s plane…
Who pushed the button that destroyed Air Force One?
Why must everyone be killed?
Are they really dead?In this game of deception only UNACO and its daring team can be trusted to join the gamble - but can they win?
To catch the story entire story>>Air Force One is Down.
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