About the Author

Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 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 recognised as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.

Reviews

'Edge-of-the-seat stuff…MacLean is back in the location he writes about best' The Times 'Alistair MacLean is brilliant at building up the tension' Sunday Mirror 'A magnificent storyteller' Sunday Mirror ‘The most successful British novelist of his time’ Jack Higgins