Alistair MacLean

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1958
  • Latest Book:
    February 2014
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Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • South by Java Head

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    The 50th anniversary edition of this classic World War 2 adventure set in south-east Asia.February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army, as the last boat slips out of the harbour i...

  • The Secret Ways

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    Winters are silent in Budapest, silent and dark, and behind some door is some ancient street Harold Jennings, the brilliant British scientist, sat rehearsing a speech denouncing his own country. The communists intended to sue Jennings' speech as the...

  • Night Without End

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    From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic.An airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive.But for the members of a remote scientific research station who res...

  • The Black Shrike

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  • The Satan Bug

    Gripping and tense story of secret agents, even more secret government facilities, and a deadly virus, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.HELL IS ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED…Five strands of high-voltage wire, 200 yards of bare ground and do...

  • When Eight Bells Toll

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    From the moment Philip Calvert begins his pursuit of a superbly organized gang of seagoing hijackers, this pulse-pounding yarn slips into high and races with a breathtaking speed that will keep every hair raised and every spine chilled to perfection....

  • Where Eagles Dare

    The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Winter 1943, and US General Carnaby has been captured by the Nazis. He is being held in a fortress high in the Bavarian Alps. headquarters of the German Secret Service...

  • Force 10 from Navarone

    The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone.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 fam...

  • Golden Rendezvous

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    A timeless classic of modern-day piracy from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Aboard the SS Campari, all is not well.For Johnny Carter, the Chief Officer, the voyage has already begun badly; but it’s only when the Campari sails that even...



  • Puppet on a Chain

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    From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic.Paul Sherman of Interpol's Narcotics Bureau flies to Amsterdam on the trail of a dope king.With enormous skill the atmosphere is built up: Amsterdam with its canals and high house...

  • Bear Island

    The classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above t...

  • Caravan to Vaccares

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    The classic tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist investigates a series of mysterious deaths, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgri...

  • Breakheart Pass

    A magnificent tale of heart-stopping suspense from the highly acclaimed master of the genre.The Rocky Mountains, Winter 1873…One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling along it is a crowded troop train, bound for the cho...

  • The Golden Gate

    A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense.A ROLLING FOR KNOXis how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI b...

  • Goodbye, California

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    The reign of terror began with a well planned heist at a nuclear power station. Then came the threat -- from a man known only as Morro -- to trigger an earthquake that would wash the entire state of California into the sea. Who was this man and w...

  • Circus

    The classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the world’s greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Bruno Wildermann of the Wrinfield Circus is the world’s gre...

  • Sea Witch

  • Ice Station Zebra

    A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense.The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean, and somehow locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fir...

  • Athabasca

    The nail-biting tale of sabotage set in the desolate frozen wastes of two ice-bound oil fields, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. SABOTAGE! THE VICTIMS Two of the most important oil-fields in the world - one in Canada, the othe...



  • Hostage Tower

    Introducing UNACO â€" the United Nations Anti Crime Organisation â€" an elite team of agents who battle the world’s deadliest criminals. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO.The most ingenious criminal in the world has come...

  • River of Death

    TREACHERY-- MURDER-- AND A DEADLY VENGEANCE In the last desperate hours of Hitler's Reich, two SS officers plot to escape to South America with a fortune in stolen loot. But only one succeeds. He builds a multimillion dollar empire in Brazil, an...

  • Partisans

    In wartime, people are either friends or enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die…PARTISANSWhile Tito’s rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction.PARTISANSThree Yugoslavs set out from Rome t...

  • Floodgate

    The tense tale of a deadly terrorist plot set in Holland, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.AMSTERDAM AIRPORT HAS DISAPPEAREDBLACKMAILThe mass of water in its place is the work of the FFF â€" an Irish terrorist group who want to force ...

  • Fear Is the Key

    A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico â€" and on the sea bed below it.A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots,...

  • San Andreas

    A medical ship ferries the wounded across the stormy North Sea. Above and below it hovers an attack force of Luftwaffe and U-boats. In its quarters lurks a treacherous saboteur. And in its hold lies an astounding secret that could turn the San Andrea...

  • The Lonely Sea

    A collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career and the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck.THE MASTER STORYTELLER IN HIS ELEMENT…Alistair MacLean has an unmistakable an...

  • The Guns of Navarone

    The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded atop an impregnable iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea.Twelve hundred British soldiers trapped o...

  • Santorini

    The gripping tale of sabotage at sea, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.In the heart of the Aegean Sea, a luxury yacht is on fire and sinking fast. Minutes later, a four-engined jet with a fire in its nose-cone crashes into the sea.Is ...

  • Heroic War Stories



  • Way to Dusty Death

    The classic tale of high-octane adventure set in the world of 1970s Formula One, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Johnny Harlow seems to have it all: he's good looking, desired by women, and envied by men; he's also the reigning Formu...

  • Dead Halt

    The discovery of an arms cache bound for the IRA leads two agents to a terrifying cartel of arms dealers, the Mafia and international power-brokers all hellbent on destabilising the West. When the mission looks impossible, who do you call? UNACO. ...

  • Time of the Assassins

    The African state of Zimbala has a new leader, but someone wants him dead â€" and the only man who knows details of the hit is being hunted by UNACO’s top agent on an illegal mission of personal vengeance. Can UNACO stop their top assassin from ...

  • The Dark Crusader

    A classic tale of espionage, secret missions and exotic locations which out-Bonds Bond, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Eight job advertisements.Eight jobs. Eight specialists in modern technology required.Eight scientists to fill the...

  • The Last Frontier

    An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong â€" a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Doctor Jennings, a noted scientist in possession of a preciou...

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    The author describes Lawrence breaking with tradition to live with Arabs and helping them defeat the Turks and gain an independent state, providing valuable insight into the origins of the Middle East as we know today....

  • H.M.S. Ulysses

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    The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century's greatest writers of action and suspense - an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HM...

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Alistair MacLean has published 36 books.

Alistair MacLean does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lawrence of Arabia, was published in February 2014.

The first book by Alistair MacLean, South by Java Head, was published in January 1958.

No. Alistair MacLean does not write books in series.
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