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Several of his books were adapted into movies including The Secret Ways, Fear Is the Key, and When Eight Bells Toll. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser gave him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955.

Comment: The spine or cover may be slightly worn but the book is otherwise in good condition and will provide thought provoking read! UNACO employed 209 personnel, thirty of those being field operatives who had been siphoned off from law enforcement agencies around the world.

A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I first started writing vignettes and short stories in my teens, mainly for school magazines, and this blossomed into a love of writing. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. This Alastair MacNeill fellow just sort of appears in 1989 and starts churning out completed treatments of MacLean's proposals like clockwork despite having no prior writing experience, and then just kind of vanishes back to South Africa after a mediocre series of book under his own name fails to take hold. By using eBid, you agree to our use of cookies to enhance your experience in accordance with our updated Privacy Policy of 25th May 2018.

This puts it in the same class as the Bond Movies of this time, which were also floundering to find relevance in that same era of post-Glasnost hope. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. He eventually wrote seven novels based on MacLean synopses and has also written five novels under his own name.When renegade members of Italy's notorious Red Brigades steal vials of a terrifying new super-virus, U.