Alistair MacLean Books in Order

In the beautiful but volatile Vale of Kashmir, militant extremists are arming themselves by running drugs and guns across the mountains. When a priest who warns UNACO is murdered, Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver must infiltrate the convoys before the valley erupts into an international crisis.

After a young US official is gunned down in London, investigators find a list of German names in her hotel room—and several men on it already dead. UNACO’s Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver chase a conspiracy tied to wartime secrets and a genius who safeguards a global crime database.

Based on MacLean’s wartime short story, this thriller follows SOE veteran Sam McIndoe and American partners Stella di Mauro and Nicky Ravallo on a covert mission in occupied Mediterranean waters. A compromised network, shifting identities and old secrets make betrayal as dangerous as the enemy.

When a famed cryptologist and UNACO’s master code documents are seized in a Lisbon airport ambush, every undercover agent in the organisation is suddenly exposed. Mike Graham, Sabrina Carver and C.W. Whitlock must recover the files before a ruthless ex-Soviet mastermind can trade them for nuclear chaos.

A schooner wrecked off Nantucket spills brand-new assault rifles onto the beach, pointing straight to a gun-running pipeline feeding the IRA. UNACO operatives Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver follow the trail through America and Europe into a tangle of arms dealers, mobsters and political fixers.

In the African state of Zimbala, reformist president Jamel Mobuto becomes the target of a hired killer whose plans are known only to terrorist-turned-CIA asset Jean Jacques Bernard. With UNACO mobilising to protect Jamel, Mike Graham disappears on a private vendetta to hunt Bernard down first.

Militants raid a high-security lab near Rome and escape with a man-made virus capable of killing millions. Demanding a vast payoff to arm terror groups across Europe, they threaten to release it during a world summit, forcing UNACO’s strike team into a desperate race against the clock.

When Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch reaches New York, experts discover the canvas is an immaculate fake. UNACO dispatches Mike Graham, C.W. Whitlock and Sabrina Carver to trace the forgery, a hunt that leads from Amsterdam to Rio de Janeiro and a billionaire’s clifftop stronghold.

A train crossing Europe carries six steel kegs of weapons-grade plutonium—and one mysterious extra cargo even more dangerous. As terrorists seize the line and drive the convoy toward disaster, UNACO agents Mike Graham, Sabrina Carver and C.W. Whitlock must board and stop the death train in motion.

In the Aegean, Royal Navy surveillance ship Ariadne witnesses a bomber crash into the sea and a luxury yacht go up in flames. Discovering a live nuclear weapon on the seabed, Commander Talbot must raise it—and uncover which rescued "survivors" are saboteurs—before disaster triggers a mega-eruption.

This collection gathers MacLean’s sea writing, from early prize-winning stories like "The Dileas" to dramatic retellings of real naval battles such as the hunt for the Bismarck. It’s a compact showcase for his mix of maritime detail, stoic humour and high-stakes survival.

As a British hospital ship limps from Murmansk to Canada under Red Cross markings, power failures, freak "accidents" and air attacks make it clear someone wants her sunk. Chief engineer John Patterson must keep San Andreas alive at sea while flushing out a hidden saboteur.

A shadowy group called the FFF blows a Dutch dyke and swamps Amsterdam’s airport, then threatens to drown much of the Netherlands unless political demands are met. Detective Peter van Effen goes undercover among arms dealers and gangsters to unmask the bombers before the sea breaks in.

In wartime Yugoslavia, agent Pete Petersen leads a small band across mountains and battle lines to deliver a vital message to Tito’s partisans. Surrounded by Nazis and rival factions, he must also decide which of his own companions is secretly playing for the other side.

Two decades after the war, adventurer Hamilton is hired to find a lost city deep in the Amazon. His wealthy client has another agenda: hunting a Nazi doctor and the war criminals who built a hidden jungle colony on stolen gold and mass murder.

A brilliant criminal mastermind arranges for a look-alike to infiltrate the security detail on Air Force One, then hijacks the presidential jet while it carries a cluster of powerful oil ministers. As wreckage falls into the sea, UNACO must decide who died, who survived—and who’s really in control.

A criminal calling himself Mr Smith seizes the Eiffel Tower and kidnaps the US president’s mother, wiring the structure with lethal lasers and explosives. UNACO chief Malcolm Philpott unleashes Mike Graham, Sabrina Carver and C.W. Whitlock to outfox the most audacious hostage-taker on earth.

In the frozen oilfields of Alaska and Canada, anonymous threats turn into explosions, deaths and crippled pipelines. Security consultant Jim Brady and his investigators track a saboteur who knows every weak point in the system—and seems willing to bring an energy empire down.

Billionaire oilman Lord Worth builds Seawitch, a massive offshore rig that threatens his rivals’ profits. When enemies kidnap his daughters and plant a nuclear device on the platform, ex-cops Mitchell and Roomer race hurricanes, helicopters and hitmen to stop a man-made catastrophe.

Armed extremists kidnap nuclear engineers from a California power plant and steal radioactive material for homemade bombs designed to rip open seismic fault lines. Detective Ryder defies his own department to rescue his wife and stop a plan that could wipe out the state.

Criminal mastermind Peter Branson seizes the US president’s motorcade on the Golden Gate Bridge, wires the towers with explosives and demands a vast ransom. Trapped on the span, undercover FBI agent Paul Revson must outthink armed fanatics while the world watches.

Trapeze star Bruno Wildermann hides a secret hatred of the regime that jailed his family and killed his wife. Recruited by Western intelligence, he uses a travelling circus as cover for an audacious raid on a fortress laboratory in the heart of an East European police state.

During a blizzard in the 1870s, a troop train climbs toward an isolated frontier fort with soldiers, a governor, civilians and a shackled outlaw in the guard car. As sabotage and murders thin the passengers, it falls to "prisoner" John Deakin to expose a deadly conspiracy.

World-champion driver Johnny Harlow seems to have lost his nerve after a fatal crash, but his drunken decline is an act. Beneath the glamour of Grand Prix racing he is quietly hunting the people orchestrating "accidents" for profit—and they’re ready to kill again.

This concise biography follows James Cook from his Yorkshire childhood and naval apprenticeship to his three great Pacific voyages. MacLean focuses on harsh sea passages, encounters with unfamiliar cultures and the navigation feats that mapped huge stretches of the world for the first time.

A film crew sails to remote Bear Island in the Arctic to shoot a war movie, but people start dying before they even reach land. Ship’s doctor Marlowe probes the killings and uncovers buried wartime crimes that someone is still desperate to keep hidden.

As gypsies converge on Provence for their annual pilgrimage, British agent Neil Bowman and student Cecile Dubois investigate a trail of "accidents" among the travellers. Their pursuit of a shadowy patron leads through vineyards and bullrings to a secret worth killing for.

Interpol narcotics agent Paul Sherman arrives in Amsterdam to follow a lead on a vicious heroin ring. With two female colleagues, he wades through crooked cops, canal ambushes and betrayals, knowing the smugglers will murder anyone who threatens their lucrative pipeline.

Fresh from silencing the Navarone guns, Mallory and Miller are dropped into war-torn Yugoslavia with a new team and a vague brief. Surrounded by partisans, Chetniks and Nazis, they must rescue missing agents and turn a looming German offensive into a disaster.

A hand-picked Allied commando squad parachutes into the Bavarian Alps to snatch an American general from the mountaintop fortress of Schloss Adler. As bodies fall and loyalties blur, Major John Smith and Lt. Schaffer must untangle a web of double agents to escape alive.

Secret agent Philip Calvert prowls the stormy waters off Scotland, posing as a marine researcher while investigating a string of vanished bullion ships. In a maze of fake customs officials, hostile locals and a fortress on the cliffs, every ally may be lying.

Two deadly biological agents—including the unstoppable "Satan Bug"—are stolen from a British research base. Security man Pierre Cavell hunts the saboteur through layers of deception, racing to stop a fanatical blackmailer from unleashing a germ that could wipe out humanity.

A luxury cruise ship that also carries cargo steams through the Caribbean with nervous officers, strange new passengers and rumours of a missing tactical nuclear weapon. When hijackers strike at sea, chief officer Johnny Carter must fight back before the Campari and everyone aboard are sacrificed.

A short, highly readable history of T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, written for younger readers. MacLean focuses on Lawrence’s desert campaigns, raids on the Hejaz railway and uneasy dealings with both Bedouin allies and British superiors.

Top scientists and their wives vanish after answering a lucrative job advert. British agent John Bentall and colleague Marie Hopeman pose as the next couple, only to be kidnapped to a remote Pacific island and drawn into a plot to steal a secret missile.

Years after hearing his family murdered over an aircraft radio, John Talbot stages a wild courtroom escape and kidnapping that seems like pure madness. In reality he is steering a gang of killers toward an offshore wreck, where revenge and buried evidence collide.

When a jet airliner crash-lands on the Greenland ice cap, a remote research team rescues the survivors—then realises a murderer is among them. With their radio destroyed, they must trek hundreds of kilometres through Arctic night while hunted for a deadly secret.

A US nuclear submarine is sent under the Arctic ice to rescue survivors from a burning weather station. Dr Carpenter boards as a mysterious specialist, but hidden agendas, sabotage and Cold War secrets turn the mission to Ice Station Zebra into a lethal chess game.

A British agent slips behind the Iron Curtain to snatch an elderly scientist out of Soviet-controlled Hungary. Michael Reynolds must outwit the secret police, survive a frozen landscape and decide whom he can trust in a country seething after revolution.

February 1942: as Singapore burns, soldiers, nurses and civilians escape aboard a shabby freighter, only to be hunted across the South China Sea. Shipwreck, open boats and a hidden traitor turn their desperate flight toward Java into a brutal test of nerve.

On a German-held Greek island, massive coastal guns block the rescue of 1,200 stranded British soldiers. A small Allied commando team must scale an "unclimbable" cliff, cross enemy territory and sabotage the fortress before the Royal Navy sails into range.

A battered light cruiser escorts an Arctic convoy toward Murmansk while its exhausted crew fight mutiny, ice storms and relentless German attacks. MacLean turns the voyage of HMS Ulysses into a bleak, gripping portrait of endurance on the edge of collapse.