Hi Jury!
Perhaps some answers to your Alistair MacLean's questions you
can find in my complete bibliography here http://rraymond.narod.ru/maclean-bib.htm
As to the real name of the author Alastair MacNeill I do not
know. It is very similar to a pseudonym... I have found only
such information: Alastair (John) MacNeill was born in
Greenock, Scotland in 1960. His family emigrated to South
Africa when he was six, settling in the coastal city of East
London. On finishing school he did a three year course in
hotel management at the Hotel School in Johannesburg. He
worked in the hotel industry for several years after leaving
college but, having nurtured a keen interest in writing since
his teens, he returned to the United Kingdom in 1985 hoping
to pursue a career as a writer. He submitted a manuscript to
Collins Publishers and, on the strength of it, was offered
the chance to write a novel based on an outline by the late
Alistair MacLean. He eventually wrote seven novels based on
MacLean synopses and has also written five novels under his
own name. He lives in Sheffield. (2006).
Best regards Vladimir http://rraymond.narod.ru/contents.htm
p.s. What about a novel: "Fire of Humiliation". by Alistair
MacLean
(Sitare Ltd [US publisher -?*], 1993)
(hardcover, released: October 1993; ISBN-10: 0940178494;
ISBN-13: 978- 0940178496) Anybody see or read it? A new
(lost) Alistair novel?
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, <juri.nummelin@...>
wrote:
>
> Couple of questions on Alistair MacLean:
>
> - what's the content of his THE LONELY
SEA?
>
> - does anyone have ALISTAIR MACLEAN: THE KEY IS FEAR
(Borgo Press
1976)?
> What's the main point in the book? I presume, by the
publisher,
it's not a mere
> biography.
>
> - does anyone know if Alastair MacNeill is really
the real name of
the author
> of MacLean sequels
>
> - what other Alistair MacLean lookalikes there were
in the sixties
and
> seventies? Marvin H. Albert wrote as Ian McAlister
and in Finland
we had Asla
> Kangasniemi, but I presume there have been
others
>
> Juri
>
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