MacLean, Alistair (Vol. 13) - Introduction

MacLean, Alistair 1922–

MacLean is an enormously popular Scots novelist, screenplay writer, and short story writer best known for The Guns of Navarone and Ice Station Zebra. Although he has been criticized for flat characterization and an occasional tendency to overwrite, MacLean is a master of the taut suspense novel, pitting man against an adverse environment and his own internal terrors. He has also written under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. (See also CLC, Vol. 3, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 57-60.)