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This Alastair MacNeill fellow just sort of appears in 1989 and starts churning out completed treatments of MacLean's proposals like clockwork despite having no prior writing experience, and then just kind of vanishes back to South Africa after a mediocre series of book under his own name fails to take hold. Between the rather remarkable similarity of names and the improbable author bio, it's pretty clear that the MacNeill alias was an invention masking a stable of jobbers.We give people around the world the opportunity to contribute to the circular economy, earn money and protect the planet, by trading their unwanted books and media.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). This one even ends with the Soviet representative looking forward to a quiet and happy retirement in Gorbachev's Russia. He wrote numerous books including HMS Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, Dark Crusader, Satan Bug, Captain Cook: A Biography, and Santorini. What is especially rich is that none of these skills are ever put into play during the novel, Strike Force Three brawls like drunks at a bar and show no particular ability with firearms. Several of his books were adapted into movies including The Secret Ways, Fear Is the Key, and When Eight Bells Toll.A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused.

The characters are more complex and full than in a typical MacLean book, which is nice, and why I tend to above average. I then changed publishers, joining Victor Gollancz, and wrote four more novels under my own name - 'Moonblood', 'Double Blind', 'Damage Control' and 'Counterplot'. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. This puts it in the same class as the Bond Movies of this time, which were also floundering to find relevance in that same era of post-Glasnost hope.Also unnerving is that this novel was published just as the USSR was falling apart, so this may be the last real-time novel that has the strange USA-USSR frenemy dynamic of the best Cold War novels. So this leaves us with a synopsis of UN sponsored special forces, and a corporate author trying to flesh it out into something sensible and acceptably novel length. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser gave him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.