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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. The second novel of the series written by author Alistair MacLean was published under the title ‘Force 10 From Navarone’. It was released in the year 1968 by the Fontana Books publishing house. The plot of this novel serves as a thrilling sequel to the highly successful first novel of the series. Apr 28, 2018 This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Although both the books sold quite well, author Alistair MacLean did not make any attempts to make changes in his style of writing. Due to this, his fans were easily able to recognize him behind his Scottish pen name. In the following years, his books began selling so well that he had to shift to Switzerland in order to attempt tax exile.

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From the back cover:
MURDER FOR MILLIONAIRES
A luxury cruise .. A missing atomic scientist .. A hidden nuclear device .. A very rich and beautiful woman ..
A band of desperate hijackers .. A ship of gold.
Put them all together with First Officer John Carter, tough, shrewd, resourceful, and you have a fantastic blend of suspense – adventure and international intrigue.

Published July 12th 1982 by Fawcett (first published 1962)

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Reviewing books is a bit like a Rorschach Test- you tease out things that you want to see, and ignore others that don't seem terribly important to you. No two people ever approach a book in quite the same way- those familiar twins, Context and Subjectivity, shape every review you make.
Being fully aware of this, it is with little hesitation that I say the following sentences: The Golden Rendezvous is Alistair MacLean's best book, which is a staggering achievement in itself. It is also, narrowly b..more

Dec 02, 2015Jonathan Kirby rated it it was amazing

I was 16 years old when I discovered Alistair Maclean. Actually this book was first read in Reader's Digest Condensed Books, and I didn't really appreciate it. But then when I really 'tasted' Maclean - you have to be the right age, and have the right education, to appreciate classical writers like Alistair Maclean - I never knew a writer who could be so GOOD. Yes, he writes suspense and adventure; but he is always clean, always humorous (in a self-deprecating way) and always marvellous in his gr..more

Aug 09, 2015Thomas Strömquist rated it liked it · review of another edition

I probably remember the movie (starring Richard Harris) more than the book, really. But I would say that this is readable, but not in any way among the first dozen or so you should pick if you're starting on MacLean.

Mar 15, 2017Lenny Husen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Perfect MacLean. His best work was done in the '50's and '60's. I thoroughly enjoyed this one from start to finish. I slowed down on purpose to stretch it out.
Here are quotes from the book:
'I couldn't make it; reasons, instinct, logic, common sense all told me I couldn't make it, but I made it.'
'It was about forty years too late now, I supposed, for anyone to point out to Dr. Marston that he was a born actor. No question in my mind now but that that was what he should have been: the gain to bot..more

Jun 23, 2012Feliks rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Alistair MaClean is one of the more difficult thriller authors to endorse. The problem is, that he was so uneven in his output. He wrote what, 30 books? But quality is entirely 'hit-or-miss', throughout. He was the 'junk-food' of the classic-era thriller-writers. So sometimes you reach for one of his titles; knowing its possibly bad ..but you just keep stuffing it into your craw. He's the writer that you're always a little-bit-embarrassed to be caught reading.
People talk about where the 'rot' i..more

It's a rare thing for a 'thriller' to garner four or five stars from me. While reading these types of books, I feel the mapping of the plot, as if the voice from a GPS computer were directing my every turn. It feels manipulative. While the sights may be interesting along the way, the randomness of life has been suppressed.
This is the feeling that was conveyed by The Golden Rendezvous. It was an engaging turn of events and the setting, a passenger ship at sea, enhanced the experience. The charact..more

Jan 27, 2018Philip rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: pocket-books, kiss-kiss-bang-bang, 1960s, mystery-thriller, first-person, fiction, filmed, air-and-sea

This was written just around the middle of Maclean's 'good period,' which generally ran from his first (and many would say best) book in 1955, HMS Ulysses, through Where Eagles Dare in 1967, (as opposed to the clunkers he wrote through the 70's and 80's). Like many if not most of his books from that early period, it's written in the first person, and while it's well-plotted and enjoyable enough, his voice and characters are so consistently recognizable there is absolutely nothing here that disti..more

Nov 06, 2012Suzannah rated it liked it

A fun book, but silly.

Jun 23, 2016Royala Christoph rated it really liked it

I have loved Alistair MacLean's work ever since I first discovered it in junior high. I'm a girl who loves suspense and action/adventure, but am conservative enough not to appreciate the hardcore profanity and sex scenes found in novels like Robert Ludlum's thrillers. MacLean's works, written mostly in the 1950s and 60s, are consistently clean and classy. There is romance in every one of his novels except for Ice Station Zebra, but not so much that it slows the pacing of the plot. MacLean has on..more

May 03, 2010Surreysmum rated it it was ok

[These notes were made in 1984:]. A MacLean I thought I'd read, but I had no recollection of it. I

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