UNACO - RED ALERT (Alistair MacLean’s UNACO)

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Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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. He wrote numerous books including HMS Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, Dark Crusader, Satan Bug, Captain Cook: A Biography, and Santorini.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. MacLean's one virtue was productivity, which upon his death meant that there were simply piles of project proposals he was pitching to disinterested producers who were disenchanted with him as his later work tended to be incoherent. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.They worked in teams of three, each team being denoted by the prefix "Strike Force," and their intensive training included all forms of unarmed combat and the use of all known firearms. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser gave him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. When renegade members of Italy's notorious Red Brigades steal vials of a terrifying new super-virus, U.

So this leaves us with a synopsis of UN sponsored special forces, and a corporate author trying to flesh it out into something sensible and acceptably novel length. The characters are more complex and full than in a typical MacLean book, which is nice, and why I tend to above average. From start to finish this is pure entertainment where heroes are heroes and villains are definitely villains but to back it up it has a great story and fabulous action scenes. The Italian Red Brigades raid the US-owned Neo Chem laboratory between Rome and Tivoli and steal a vial of deadly DNA virus. This is just boilerplate to take away objections if ever they do something that requires that they know the ancient art of Tibetian Finger Wrestling or be able to counter it in an opponent.If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. The best part is that the agent for Alastair MacNeill continues to insist that "Uh-huh, he's a real boy" long after the name recognition and market value of the name have long expired. A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused. By using eBid, you agree to our use of cookies to enhance your experience in accordance with our updated Privacy Policy of 25th May 2018. I was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1960 and moved with my parents to East London in South Africa when I was six years old.

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 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! Azets Debt Solutions Limited is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority for consumer credit activities (FCA registered number 799455).

Comment: The spine or cover may be slightly worn but the book is otherwise in good condition and will provide thought provoking read!Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2018-09-13 03:47:49 Associated-names MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. Several of his books were adapted into movies including The Secret Ways, Fear Is the Key, and When Eight Bells Toll. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.