![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote the screenplays for four of his own novels-”Where Eagles Dare,” “Caravan to Vaccares,” “Puppet on a Chain” and “Breakheart Pass.” MacLean continued to produce a string of best-selling novels and was much sought-after by film producers and directors. The book broke another record, selling more than 400,000 copies in its first six months. Published in 1955, the book sold an unprecedented 250,000 hardback copies in six months, launching his career as an internationally acclaimed novelist.Ī year later, he wrote “The Guns of Navarone,” which was made into a blockbuster film starring Gregory Peck and David Niven. That novel, “HMS Ulysses,” a thinly fictionalized account of his own ordeal as a young sailor, was set aboard a British naval convoy ship during World War II. ![]()
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