Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) is a British writer and screenwriter, the creator of 28 dynamic novels and adventure stories who gained worldwide fame. The total print run of his books exceeded 150 million copies; 18 films were made based on his works and original plots. In 1983, the University of Glasgow awarded MacLean a Doctor of Letters degree.
The military action thriller “The Partisans” takes the reader back to the years of the Second World War: Major Petersen, together with a group of fighters, makes his way through Yugoslavia to deliver a specially important dispatch and expose a double agent embedded within a partisan unit under the guise of their own.