Alistair MacLean

Alistair MacLean

1922-04-21 Glasgow, Scotland 17 Credits

Biography

Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. His works include The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare – all three were made into popular films. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. [from Wikipedia]

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Night Watch

Night Watch

1995

Story

4.6
Writing

UN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch"....

Death Train

Death Train

1993

Novel

5.0

When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijacked train, special agents are dispatched to disarm ...

River of Death

River of Death

1989

Novel

4.9

An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people decide to join him for the wealt...

The Hostage Tower

The Hostage Tower

1980

Novel, Story

4.8
Writing

A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, th...

Bear Island

Bear Island

1979

Novel

5.9

A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders ta...

Force 10 from Navarone

Force 10 from Navarone

1978

Novel

6.2

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

Golden Rendezvous

Golden Rendezvous

1977

Novel

4.9

Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero when the floating casino on which he works is hijacke...

Breakheart Pass

Breakheart Pass

1975

Novel, Screenplay

6.6
Writing

At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passeng...

Caravan to Vaccarès

Caravan to Vaccarès

1974

Novel

5.4

American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort...

Fear Is the Key

Fear Is the Key

1972

Novel

5.9

A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed.

When Eight Bells Toll

When Eight Bells Toll

1971

Novel, Screenplay

5.7
Writing

In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coas...

Puppet on a Chain

Puppet on a Chain

1970

Novel, Writer

6.0
Writing

Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent, Paul Sherman, arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with...

Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare

1968

Screenplay, Story, Novel

7.5
Writing

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impo...

Ice Station Zebra

Ice Station Zebra

1968

Novel

6.3

A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arcti...

The Satan Bug

The Satan Bug

1965

Novel

6.1

A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The b...

The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

1961

Novel

7.3

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range fiel...

The Secret Ways

The Secret Ways

1961

Novel

5.2

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist e...