I'm bored, so I'm posting a quote.

[nuranar]

I've posted it before, too, but it was *checks* FOUR years ago. So enjoy anyway!

This is an excerpt from a spy story by Alistair MacLean (When Eight Bells Toll). It's the middle of the night, and the protagonist is on a short grass landing strip, near the enemy base (a private castle on a Scottish island).

The strip was smooth and flat and I made

Comments

[impulsereader]

This is obviously completely brilliant. Alistair MacLean is firmly placed upon my reading list per your previous rec and this - Errol Flynn! - bit of his writing. I am currently on final approach to a vacation in Edinburgh where I am hoping to find brilliant second hand book stores and come home much heavier than I left. I am definitely doing so with a list of authors which I've gleaned from your journal.

[nuranar]

This is obviously completely brilliant.

Just what I've been preaching for years. Obviously! :D What an awesome vacation that will be. MacLean was a Scot born and bred, so I hope there's plenty of his work to be found. (There certainly is in the USBs here.) DO focus on the early ones, though. They're not *quite* as common to find (particularly Navarone and Where Eagles Dare), but totally worth it.

I can't wait to hear what you find, and then what you think of it all! :D

[impulsereader]

I've cheated just a little bit as I've just been to my USB and they had a copy of the same book you quoted from yesterday. The coincidence was too much for me and I bought it. So, on my way sooner than I thought.

[nuranar]

Heh, fun! I won't prejudice you any more if you haven't read my review.

[suededsilk]

*glee* Great excerpt! Thanks for sharing it.

(Also: the...ungodly? My interest is now piqued.)

[nuranar]

Yay! I'm glad you like it!

(Hehehe... this isn't the only place MacLean uses that phrasing. I'm not sure it's a direct Saint tribute, but it could very well have gotten into his vocabulary that way.)

[bienegold]

That's awesome.

[nuranar]

:D