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	Alistair MacLean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		MacLean was the son of a minister, and learned English as his second language after his mother tongue Scottish Gaelic.
		MacLean's later books were not as well received as the earlier ones and, in an attempt to keep his stories in keeping with the time, he sometimes lapsed into overly improbable plots.
		Alistair MacLean was awarded a Doctorate of Literature at the University of Glasgow in 1983.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alistair_MacLean (1654 words)

	Alistair MacLean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alistair Stuart MacLean (April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987) was a Scottish novelist, writer of successful thrillers or adventures, the best known of which is perhaps The Guns of Navarone.
		Instead MacLean lets little to hinder the flow of events in his books, making his heroes fight against seemingly unbeatable odds and often pushing them to the limits of their physical and mental endurance.
		MacLean was known to plagiarize himself at times; for example, the description "huddled shapelessness of the dead" occurs in some form in several stories.
	www.sugarland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alistair_MacLean (1152 words)

	When Eight Bells Toll (Alistair Maclean) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Maclean's gift for understated and ironic dialogue, both internal and external, is on full display from the very first scene, in which we find Calvert facing an opponent armed with a Colt.45 revolver in the cabin of a ship he has just boarded.
		Calvert is a typical Maclean hero, world-weary and sometimes cynical, yet ultimately honorable, who must battle bureaucracy as well as the bad guys to solve the crime.
		Maclean was born and raised in Scotland, and spent part of his childhood in the Highlands.
	www.shadowdark.org /webstore/viewproduct.php?asin=044920636X (765 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Alistair MacLean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bestselling writer Alistair MacLean always insisted that he was a storyteller rather than a novelist.
		MacLean was born on 28 April 1922 in Shettleston, Glasgow.
		Maclean's father and oldest brother both died while MacLean was still at school, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5066 (707 words)

	Alistair MacLean
		Alistair MacLean was born in Glasgow, the son of a minister.
		MacLean had started his career as a short story writer, and a few years before his death he published The Lonely Sea, a collection of stories, in which he proved again his skill in describing the power of the sea.
		MacLean left a number of story outlines, commissioned by an American film company, to be written by other authors.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /maclean.htm (2332 words)

	Alistair MacLean: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The guns of navarone is a 1957 novel of world war ii by uk thriller writer alistair maclean that was made into a us film in 1961....
		The english language is a west germanic language that originated in england from old english (anglo-saxon), the language of the anglo-saxons of northern...
		Where eagles dare is a 1967 novel by alistair maclean that he also converted to a screenplay for a motion picture of the same name....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alistair_maclean1.htm (2520 words)

	Alistar MacLean Bio
		Alistair Maclean was born, Alistair George Gilach Maclean, in Glasgow, Strathclyde Lanarkshire, in 1922.
		MacLean's relationship with publisher Collins was not always an easy one.
		Alistair MacLean died on February 2nd, 1987 in Munich Germany, and was buried in Celigny Switzerland.
	home.cfl.rr.com /jlcentral/Maclean/Bio.htm (390 words)

	Alistair Maclean: short biography, dates and history
		Alistair Stuart MacLean, writer, was born in Glaskow, Scotland.
		MacLean published his first book, H.M.S. ULYSSES, when he was 33.
		Alistair MacLean died in Munich, Germany in 1972.
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	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was a master of pace, often at the expense of characterisation, keeping the action moving so that the reader had no time to stop and think.
		MacLean's relationship with his publisher, Collins, was not always an easy one, and to prove that it was not his name alone that was selling his books, he produced in 1960
		Alistair MacLean died in February 1987 in Munich and was buried in Celigny, Switzerland.
	www.slainte.org.uk /Scotauth/macledsw.htm (486 words)

	Alistair MacLean
		Alistair Stuart MacLean was born in Daviot, Scotland.
		MacLean became an English and History Master at a school just outside Glasgow.
		MacLean died in Munich after a series of strokes.
	www.xs4all.nl /~embden11/Engels/maclean.htm (263 words)

	Mystery Guide - Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MacLean was one of the most financially successful writers of his day, and in later years he capitalized by marketing other writers' work under his brand name.
		He was also one of the first writers to realize that the big money came from selling movie scenarios rather than books, which led him to produce calculatedly film-friendly novels with tons of action and very little characterization or extraneous description.
		It seems to me that MacLean, a notoriously mechanistic writer who churned out each book in 35 days, must have written out a list of all the potential hazards that might arise in his basic scenario -- and then methodically written each one into the plot.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkMacleanZebra.html (462 words)

	Alistair MacLean
		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; two and a half years spent aboard a cruiser were to give him the background for 'HMS Ulysses', his first novel, the outstanding documentary novel on the war at sea.
		Maclean is the author of twenty-nine world bestsellers and recognised as an outstanding writer in his own genre.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /m/alistair-maclean (178 words)

	Alistair Maclean
		Alistair MacLean was born in Glaskow as the son of a minister.
		His father died when Alistair was 14, and he returned to Glaskow with his mother.
		MacLean died of heart failure in Munich on February 2, in 1987.
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	Mr Alistair Maclean
		In Canberra, Mr Maclean most recently served as a lead negotiator for the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement, and was the Department's speechwriter from 2001 to 2003.
		Mr Maclean previously served as an Adviser in the International Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in 1996 and 1997.
		Born in Melbourne in 1964, Mr Maclean holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in political science from Melbourne University, and a Master of International Law degree from the Australian National University.
	www.dfat.gov.au /homs/la.html (228 words)

	Amazon.com: Athabasca: Books: Alistair MacLean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As Joseph Shembrie noted here, Alistair Maclean had his battle with the bottle, and it's no trick guessing which was winning when he wrote this.
		The heroes don't act on their suspicions about which are the criminals as it would interfere with their drinking time, and when the evil gang is at last revealed, the big "A-ha" moment is considerably dampened by the fact they are mostly either obscure or unknown to the story as told to that point.
		Maclean lost his battle with alcoholism later in life, and it adversely affected his output.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0002220059?v=glance (1192 words)

	Where Eagles Dare (Adrenaline Classics Series) (Alistair MacLean) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MacLeans dialogue between his characters is comic book variety at best.
		This book is highly recommended to fans of Alistair Maclean and to those looking for a very enjoyable reading experience.
		But you have to credit MacLean for devising such a scene, and as it appears in the novel much as it did on the script you can't say "Where Eagles Dare" the novel fails at being entertaining.
	www.shadowdark.org /webstore/viewproduct.php?asin=1560254556 (897 words)

	Alistair W. MacLean
		Our current investigations are using a small driving simulator and subjective, behavioural and physiological assessments of sleepiness to gain a greater theoretical understanding of the relationship between sleepiness and performance which we hope will lead to improvements in our capacity to predict and detect deterioration under real-life conditions.
		Davidson, J.R., MacLean, A.W., Brundage, M.D., and Schulze,K. Sleep disturbance in patients attending a regional cancer centre.
		MacLean, A.W. Davies, R.T. and Thiele, K. Sleepiness and driving.
	pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca /faculty/maclean/maclean.html (309 words)

	Amazon.com: Breakheart Pass: Books: Alistair MacLean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MacLean has more hits on his list than misses, and this is near the top of the hits.
		Maclean is less successful capturing an authentic tone of the frontier West.
		The leading character, the mysterious Deakin, is not a particularly interesting protagonist, and the plot is unusually contrived and difficult to follow for Maclean.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385041209?v=glance (807 words)

	MacLean, Alistair (1922-1987). Novelist. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Glasgow in 1922, MacLean was brought up in Daviot near Inverness, then educated at Hillhead High School in Glasgow.
		Maclean left some unrealised book outlines, which have been posthumously completed by others, and published under his name.
		An Alistair MacLean page can be found at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7817.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~crumey/alistair_maclean.html (182 words)

	Alistair MacLean Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MacLean published 28 novels and a collection of short stories, as well as books about T. Lawrence and James Cook.
		Although he did write about a fictitious UN organisation, the books were later completed by others.
		Chief among these is the "Hostage Tower" by Alistair Macnell.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/MacLean_Alistair.html (665 words)

	Alistair MacLean Games - Just Adventure + Schedule of Upcoming Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		5/10/2002 I'm sure that all of you recognize the name of the author, Alistair MacLean and that many of you have read at least some of his wonderful books.
		SCi (a European developer) has announced a licensing agreement with the MacLean estate to develop games based on three of his most popular novels: Where Eagles Dare, The Guns of Navarone and Ice Station Zebra.
		While each of these novels have a significant action component their storyline is strongly influenced by a great adventure.
	www.justadventure.com /Upcoming_Releases/AlistairMacLean/AlistairMacLean.shtm (94 words)

	Amazon.com: Seawitch: Books: Alistair MacLean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It looks like Alistair MacLean had a bill due so he churned out this snoozer in a week's time.
		The plot of "Seawitch" is a little less convoluted than typical MacLean: Lord Worth, fabulously wealthy and quite ruthless, has made a lot of enemies in the oil business because of his cutthroat attitude.
		Still, by 1977, when he wrote "Seawitch," MacLean was starting to lose his talent, and after this, his books range from mediocre ("Athabasca") to dreadful ("River of Death", "Partisans").
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385128525?v=glance (797 words)

	Alistair Mac Lean Editorial @ BareHands.com (Bare Hands) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		First he was assigned to PS Bournemouth Queen, a converted excursion ship fitting for anti-aircraft guns, in duties off the coasts of England and Scotland.
		He is buried a few yards from Richard Burton in Céligny, Switzerland.
		However most are currently still in print in paperback in the UK.
	www.barehands.com /encyclopedia/Alistair_MacLean (1361 words)

	eBay - alistair maclean, Fiction Books, Nonfiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alistair MacLean - Bear Island - 1st HB
		Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean - SC 1970
		The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean (1957)
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	Overview of Alistair MacLean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MacLean served in the Royal Navy during World War Two, and then entered Glasgow University.
		MacLean is well known for his action-adventure novels, many of which have been made into popular films.
		Maclean also wrote biographies of Captain James Cook, the explorer, and T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia).
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst420.html (138 words)

	Books
		Many people have accused MacLean of being conducive to the growth of the “Alistair MacLean syndrome.” That is, when an author is unable to match his earlier works.
		That is not so, and it is being very selfish calling MacLean such names.
		In case you do not know who MacLean is, remember The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Force 10 from Navarone, Puppet on a Chain, and of course, Ice Station Zebra!
	members.tripod.com /~ChetanN/Books/books.htm (123 words)

	Alibris: Alistair MacLean
		Under the code name of Force 10, they are to discover why the leaders of all four of the British Military Missions have gone...
		One of Alistair MacLean's great classic tales of adventure.
		It takes Spaatz more than thirty years to track down his old SS comrade in South America and exact revenge for his betrayal and the theft of the gold that together they had amassed during the last years of the war.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/MacLean,Alistair (529 words)

	Alistair MacLean - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alistair Stuart MacLean (April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which is perhaps The Guns of Navarone.
		Compared to other thriller writers of the time, such as Ian Fleming, MacLean's books are exceptional in one way at least: they have an absence of sex and are short on romance because MacLean thought that such diversions merely serve to slow down the action.
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	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Alistair_MacLean (1593 words)

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