Alistair MacLean

Alistair MacLean ( Scottish Gaelic : Alasdair MacGill-Eain * 21st April 1922 in Glasgow , † 2. February 1987 in Munich ) was a Scottish thriller - Author . He also wrote under the pen name Ian Stuart .

Life

Alistair MacLean's grave in Céligny , Switzerland

MacLean was born in Glasgow to a minister. He grew up in the Highlands near Inverness and attended Hillhead High School in Glasgow. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy as a seaman in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and, from 1945, in the Pacific. His claim that he was by the Japanese in captivity have been arrested and tortured, were designated by both his son and by his biographer as inventions during his alcohol addiction. After the war he studied English at the University of Glasgow , where he graduated in 1953 and henceforth worked as a teacher.

MacLean began writing at university. With short stories he improved his income and won a competition of the Glasgow Herald in 1954 with the short story Dileas . The editor asked him to write more, and this was followed by the novel The Men of Ulysses , based on his own war experiences. The book was a great success, and MacLean was soon able to devote himself to writing war and espionage novels. In the early 1960s, MacLean published two books under the pseudonym Ian Stuart to prove that the success of his books was solely due to his "good writing" and not his name. These two books also sold well. In the 1980s, MacLean was one of the most successful writers of his time, with 30 million books sold worldwide. In 1983 he was honored with an honorary doctorate from Glasgow University .

In later years MacLean had more and more alcohol problems , the sequelae of which he succumbed on February 2, 1987 in Munich. He was married twice and had three sons with his first wife.

Works

MacLean published 28 novels , a variety of other short stories, and two books on TE Lawrence and James Cook.

Novels

No.	year	title	original	Movie
1.	1955	The men of Ulysses	HMS Ulysses
2.	1957	The Navarone cannons	The Guns of Navarone	The Navarone cannons
3.	1957	The survivors of the Kerry Dancer	South by Java Head
4th	1959	Beyond the border	The Last Frontier (USA: The Secret Ways)	Secret ways
5.	1960	Night without end	Night Without End
6th	1961	Fear is the key	Fear is the key	Fear is the key
7th	1961	Black hornet	The Dark Crusader (USA: The Black Shrike) *
8th.	1962	Rendezvous with death	The Golden Rendezvous (USA: Nuclear Terror)	Rendezvous with death
9.	1962	Satan's beetle	The Satan Bug *	Secret agent Barrett intervenes
10.	1963	Zebra ice station	Ice Station Zebra	Zebra ice station
11.	1966	The killer ship	When Eight Bells Great	The killer ship
12.	1967	Agents die lonely	Where Eagles Dare	Agents die lonely
13.	1968	Zenica Secret Command	Force 10 from Navarone	The wild bunch of Navarone also Force 10 - The Special Forces
14th	1969	Souvenirs	Puppet on a chain	The rats of Amsterdam
15th	1970	Deadly fiesta	Caravan to Vaccarès	Duel in Vaccares
16.	1971	The island	Bear Island	Bear Island in Hell of the Arctic
17th	1972	The dream of the south	Captain Cook
18th	1973	A handful of earth for the winner	The Way to Dusty Death	The Way to Dusty Death
19th	1974	Nevada Pass	Breakheart Pass	Nevada Pass
20th	1975	Circus	Circus
21st	1976	Golden gate	The Golden Gate
22nd	1977	Sea witch	Seawitch
23.	1978	Goodbye California	Goodbye California
24.	1980	The Hell of Athabasca	Athabasca
25th	1981	River of horror	River of Death	River of Death
26th	1982	Partisans	Partisans
27.	1982	Air Force One's flight to hell	Air Force One Is Down	Air Force One Is Down
28.	1983	The blackmail	Floodgate
29	1984	The secret of the San Andreas	San Andreas
30th	1985	Lonely sea / raging sea	The Lonely Sea
31.	1986	The Santorini shock	Santorini

(*) Published as Ian Stuart

Edited from 1955 to 1971 by Heron Books

Alistair MacLean left some manuscripts for unfinished novels. Some of these manuscripts were edited, completed, and published by other writers:

Simon Gandolfi :

• Alistair MacLean's Golden Revenge
• Alistair MacLean's Golden Network
• Alistair MacLean's Golden Girl
• Alistair MacLean's white sand

Alastair MacNeill :

• Alistair MacLean's rendezvous.
• Alistair MacLean's The Rembrandt Deal
• Alistair MacLean's Time of the Assassins
• Alistair MacLean's Trail of Death (also Detonator - The Death Train )
• Alistair MacLean's Ventura
• Alistair MacLean's Three Days to Eternity
• Alistair MacLean's Codebreaker

Sam Llewellyn :

• Alistair MacLean's The Men of Navarone
• Alistair MacLean's The Navarone Shock Troops

Hugh Miller:

• Alistair MacLean's Deadly Target

Web links

• Alistair MacLean in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Alistair MacLean in the catalog of the German National Library
• German-language Alistair MacLean fan page. Information on novels and films.

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1. ↑ Jack Webster: Alistair MacLean: A Life. Chapmans Publishers, 1991, ISBN 1-85592-519-2 , P191 (Alternative title: Alistair MacLean: A Biography of a Master Storyteller .)