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Dec 4, 2021 · Contemporary thriller writer Lee Child is a long-time MacLean fan. Creator of the Jack Reacher novels, which owe an acknowledged debt to the Scot, he has penned the foreword to a new edition of ...
- Barry Didcock
Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, most notably The Guns of Navarone (1957) and Ice Station Zebra (1963).
Feb 3, 1987 · Alistair MacLean, author of ''The Guns of Navarone'' and one of the biggest-selling adventure writers in the world, died of heart failure yesterday in Munich, West Germany. He was 64 years old and ...
First, Dr Macdonald, rector. of Inverness Royal Academy when Alistair was a pupil in the early 1930s. He's 90 but remembers him well. Then to that very special lady, Barbara Mackintosh (Mrs Fraser ...
When Eight Bells Toll is a first-person narrative novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean and published in 1966. It marked MacLean's return after a three-year gap, following the publication of Ice Station Zebra (1963), during which time he had run several restaurants. [ 1][ 2] When Eight Bells Toll combines the genres of spy novel and ...
- Alistair Maclean
- 1966
Feb 2, 1987 · Alistair MacLean, the author of “The Guns of Navarone” and one of Britain’s leading postwar writers, died today in Munich. He was 64. ... Four years after her death, her second novel proves ...
Feb 3, 1987 · Novelist Alistair MacLean, author of "Where Eagles Dare," "The Guns of Navarone" and 25 other best-selling books, died Monday in Munich, West Germany, at age 64.
