Collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career, the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck, and two new stories collected here for the first time. THE MASTER STORYTELLER IN HIS ELEMENT… Alistair MacLean has an unmistakable and unrivalled skill in writing about the sea and its power and about the men and women who sail it, and who fight and die in it. His distinctive voice was evident from his very first prize-winning story, ‘The Dileas’, and has been heard time and again in his international career as the author of such bestsellers as H.M.S. Ulysses and San Andreas. The Lonely Sea starts where MacLean’s career started, with ‘The Dileas’, and collects together his stories of the sea. Here is a treasury of vintage MacLean, compelling and brilliant, where the master storyteller is in his element. This reissue includes two new stories, ‘The Good Samaritan’ and ‘The Black Storm’, which bear all the classic hallmarks of MacLean’s finest writing and are published here for the very first time.
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Cover Page
Title Page
Table of Contents
The Dileas
St George and the Dragon
The Arandora Star
Rawalpindi
The Sinking of the Bismarck
The Meknes
MacHinery and the Cauliflowers
Lancastria
McCrimmon and the Blue Moonstones
They Sweep the Seas
City of Benares
The Gold Watch
Rendezvous
The Jervis Bay
The Black Storm
The Good Samaritan
Postscript: Rewards and Responsibilities of Success