Holy water has nothing on this

[sovay]

Life is unfair when you find a shelf in a used book store containing six novels by Alistair MacLean and not one of them is The Guns of Navarone (1957).

(I got HMS Ulysses (1955). About seven years ago I was trying to write a story that included a fictitious WWII Arctic convoy, so if nothing else I can count it as someday research; also, it looked good. But still.)

Comments

[sovay]

That may just have been accessibility, because he used to be everywhere and then he died and then he kind of vanished.

I hadn't heard of him when I picked up the book, although I have since seen that he was pop-culturally popular enough to have several movie adaptations, including The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) with Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston. I just knew it looked interesting and contained the sea.