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ALISTAIR MACLEAN

   

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.

   

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
 
The Guns of Navarone
 
South by Java Head
 
The Last Frontier
 
Night Without End
 
Fear is the Key
 
The Dark Crusader
 
The Satan Bug
 
The Golden Rendezvous
 
Ice Station Zebra
 
When Eight Bells Toll
 
Where Eagles Dare
 
Force 10 from Navarone
 
Puppet on a Chain
 
Caravan to Vaccarès
 
Bear Island
 
The Way to Dusty Death
 
Breakheart Pass
 
Circus
 
The Golden Gate
 
Seawitch
 
Goodbye California
 
Athabasca
 
River of Death
 
Partisans
 
Floodgate
 
San Andreas
 
The Lonely Sea (stories)
 
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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This paperback edition 2009 
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First published in Great Britain by Collins 1975 then in paperback by Fontana 1977

Copyright © Devoran Trustees Ltd 1975

Alistair MacLean asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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