This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria. — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less,… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share
I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“Tallal, Lawrence relates, gave a moan like a hurt animal. Then he rode off to higher ground and remained there for some moments, shivering… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions that might… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“She was still doing forty knots, driving in under the guns of the enemy, guns at maximum depression, when "A" magazine blew up, blasted… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
