![]() And the best film, Where Eagles Dare, is not one of his best books. THE NOVEL THAT LAUNCHED THE ASTONISHING CAREER OF ONE OF THE 20TH CENTURYS GREATEST WRITERS OF ACTION AND SUSPENSE - AN ACCLAIMED CLASSIC OF HEROISM AND. ![]() Oddly, his best books haven’t filmed all that well. I could spend all day at a cricket match talking about Alistair MacLean novels. ‘Ulysses.’ It got two whole pages to itself in a now defunct Scottish newspaper, with a drawing of the dust jacket wreathed in flames and the headline ‘Burn this book.’ I had paid the Royal Navy the greatest compliment of which I could conceive: this dolt thought it was an act of denigration.ĭelighted that you are a fan too, Peter. She has seen a great deal of action on the northern convoy routes to Murmansk, and is wearing out. The first criticism I ever read was of my first book, H.M.S. HMS Ulysses is a light cruiser, a variant on the Dido class, with some features of the later, similar Black Prince class units. ![]() ![]() I feel no responsibility whatsoever towards book critics. In the Glasgow Herald in 1982 he wrote about his writing, and included this paragraph: ![]() Most critics comment most favourably on the justly famous scene in which a very ill Captain Vallery nevertheless insists on touring his very ill ship.Īlistair MacLean would have been in his early 20s during his service on the Arctic convoys, and he died aged 64 in 1987 of alcohol-related problems – the same problems which caused the unhappy decline in his work after his first 10 or so adventure novels. ![]()
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