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A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style.A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and resolved.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Alistair MacLean
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Permabooks, Fontana Press, Doubleday
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780449140116
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Alistair MacLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of a minister. He spent much of his childhood in Daviot, Scotland. His native language was Scottish Gaelic. During World War II he served with the Royal Navy and was released in 1946. After the war, he studied English at the University of Glasgow, and he began writing short stories for extra income. He graduated in 1953 and became a a school teacher in Rutherglen. In 1954 he won a fiction competition and Collins Publishing asked him for a novel. He submitted HMS Ulysses, drawn from his own war experiences, and it was published in 1955. It was very successful and MacLean became a full-time writer. In the 1960s, he published two novels un
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