Fear is the Key (31 page)
Authors: Alistair MacLean
Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister,
was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In
1941, at the age of eighteen, he joined the
Royal Navy. After the war he read English
at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster.
The two and a half years he spent
aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the
background for
HMS Ulysses
, his remarkably
successful first novel, published in 1955. He
is now recognized as one of the outstanding
popular writers of the 20th century, the
author of twenty-nine worldwide bestsellers,
many of which have been filmed, including
The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Fear
is the Key and Ice Station Zebra
. In 1983, he was
awarded a D.Litt. from Glasgow University.
Alistair MacLean died in 1987.
HMS Ulysses
The Guns of Navarone
South by Java Head
The Last Frontier
Night Without End
Fear is the Key
The Dark Crusader
The Golden Rendezvous
The Satan Bug
Ice Station Zebra
When Eight Bells Toll
Where Eagles Dare
Force 10 from Navarone
Puppet on a Chain
Caravan to Vaccares
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
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