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.)

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[pameladean]

I read most of my Alastair MacLean to pieces in my teens and twenties. I recall HMS Ulysses as being different from the rest, but it was one of my favorites. I still retain a vast fondness for The Secret Ways -- something about the wintry setting without the stark terror of Ice Station Zebra, and some Hungarian characters who are probably all stereotypes, but I had never encountered them before.

I hope a copy of The Guns of Navarone will befall you soon.

P.

[sovay]

I hope a copy of The Guns of Navarone will befall you soon.

Thank you. I will look for The Secret Ways, too. In the meantime, I am enjoying HMS Ulysses.