SYNOPSIS

This book spans the author's entire career and collects together all his stories of the sea, beginning with "The Dileas" and ending with two new stories published here for the very first time. Here is a treasury of vintage MacLean, compelling and brilliant, where the master storyteller is in his element.  

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/S

Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941, at the age of eighteen, he joined the Royal Navy. After the war, he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. He is recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed, including The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Fear is the Key and Ice Station Zebra. In 1983, he was awarded a D.Litt. from Glasgow University. He died in 1987.