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UNACO - RED ALERT (Alistair MacLean’s UNACO)

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No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. I then changed publishers, joining Victor Gollancz, and wrote four more novels under my own name - 'Moonblood', 'Double Blind', 'Damage Control' and 'Counterplot'. This puts it in the same class as the Bond Movies of this time, which were also floundering to find relevance in that same era of post-Glasnost hope. This Alastair MacNeill fellow just sort of appears in 1989 and starts churning out completed treatments of MacLean's proposals like clockwork despite having no prior writing experience, and then just kind of vanishes back to South Africa after a mediocre series of book under his own name fails to take hold.

Between the rather remarkable similarity of names and the improbable author bio, it's pretty clear that the MacNeill alias was an invention masking a stable of jobbers. But had angles that were unnecessary, like the CW angle as the driver, and the last two chapters on the revenge.Azets Debt Solutions Limited is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority for consumer credit activities (FCA registered number 799455).

The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. What is especially rich is that none of these skills are ever put into play during the novel, Strike Force Three brawls like drunks at a bar and show no particular ability with firearms. So it's good for what it is, but it's really not very much more than a series of inconsequential gunfights capped with a sudden, but entirely predictable betrayal. I was educated at Selborne College in East London then spent three years at the Hotel School in Johannesburg.These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. Also unnerving is that this novel was published just as the USSR was falling apart, so this may be the last real-time novel that has the strange USA-USSR frenemy dynamic of the best Cold War novels. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. I managed to get lost in shanty town, which was quite scary as nobody spoke any English, and I was being watched with great interest by the locals!

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