UNACO - RED ALERT (Alistair MacLean’s UNACO)

Product Information

Their mission is to find and secure the vial before a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions takes place. MacLean's one virtue was productivity, which upon his death meant that there were simply piles of project proposals he was pitching to disinterested producers who were disenchanted with him as his later work tended to be incoherent. A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused. He wrote numerous books including HMS Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, Dark Crusader, Satan Bug, Captain Cook: A Biography, and Santorini.

Between the rather remarkable similarity of names and the improbable author bio, it's pretty clear that the MacNeill alias was an invention masking a stable of jobbers. you only have to read the chapters introducing our three heroes and comparing how female Sabrina was described with males Mike and CW! This is just boilerplate to take away objections if ever they do something that requires that they know the ancient art of Tibetian Finger Wrestling or be able to counter it in an opponent. I managed to get lost in shanty town, which was quite scary as nobody spoke any English, and I was being watched with great interest by the locals!To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. From start to finish this is pure entertainment where heroes are heroes and villains are definitely villains but to back it up it has a great story and fabulous action scenes. 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. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. In 2002, World of Books Group was founded on an ethos to do good, protect the planet and support charities by enabling more goods to be reused.

I was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1960 and moved with my parents to East London in South Africa when I was six years old. The best part is that the agent for Alastair MacNeill continues to insist that "Uh-huh, he's a real boy" long after the name recognition and market value of the name have long expired. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.I first started writing vignettes and short stories in my teens, mainly for school magazines, and this blossomed into a love of writing.

What is especially rich is that none of these skills are ever put into play during the novel, Strike Force Three brawls like drunks at a bar and show no particular ability with firearms. The manuscript was sent to Collins publishers and ended up on the desk of Marjorie Chapman, the wife of Ian Chapman who'd 'discovered' Alistair MacLean. UNACO employed 209 personnel, thirty of those being field operatives who had been siphoned off from law enforcement agencies around the world.Also unnerving is that this novel was published just as the USSR was falling apart, so this may be the last real-time novel that has the strange USA-USSR frenemy dynamic of the best Cold War novels. I then changed publishers, joining Victor Gollancz, and wrote four more novels under my own name - 'Moonblood', 'Double Blind', 'Damage Control' and 'Counterplot'. He also wrote several original screenplays including Breakheart Pass and conceived an adventure drama for television entitled The Hostage Towers.