Alistair MacLean is a legend of the adventure novel.   His work, especially his first several novels, is the standard all other adventure ...

I learned something interesting a few weeks ago—Alistair MacLean’s Navarone series ( The Guns of Navarone and its somewhat less successful ...

A few weeks ago I posted five trailers based on the work of Alistair MacLean, and over the weekend I found a few more. I haven’t seen The Sa...

I started out this evening cruising through IMDB looking for films based on the novels of Alistair MacLean and I ended up at YouTube watchin...

Over at the Rap Sheet a few days ago J. Kingston Pierce posted, in response to a meme, the different covers of the Erle Stanley Gardner nov...

I'm fond of a quote I read somewhere years ago: I keep the story moving so quickly the reader doesn't have time to slow down and rea...

A few days ago Ed Gorman wrote a blog post about used bookstores and the writers who hate them. Apparently, and there is very probably some ...

I'm a sucker for book covers--the more interesting the better. Over the last few decades I've been an interested spectator of the ch...