A biography of a master storyteller. At the height of his success, Alistair MacLean was the bestselling author in the world. Yet his own life story is as wide-ranging and as fascinating as any fiction. Following the MacLean story from the West Coast of Scotland to Switzerland, Hollywood and Yugoslavia, Jack Webster has interviewed family, friends, film producers and film stars. What emerges is a strangely complex man, modest and vulnerable, who never felt he quite deserved his successes.