Posted: 3/19/2005 11:48:02 AM EDT
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Finally it came out..picked it up with Heat Special Edition.... Man I missed this movie. Watched it when I was a kid, loved it...and got it again. Also picked up another old favorite in the book department, Red Phoenix by Larry Bond. Ahh...living in the past..sometimes it's good  |
Red Phoenix is one good read. FYI for everyone else it's a techno-thriller about a second Korean war set in the present day. Well, it was written around '89, but it's still as current today IMHO. When I was TDY to Pusan in '97 I noticed every schoolteacher at the army post had read it. Back to Ice Station Zebra: Good movie! |
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Good movie.....better book. From Google: Before Tom Clancy, there was Alistair MacLean. The Glaswegian got his start as a teenage Royal Navy torpedoman during WWII, an experience which he would later put to good use in his pioneering technothrillers. MacLean was one of the most financially successful writers of his day, and in later years he capitalized by marketing other writers' work under his brand name. He was also one of the first writers to realize that the big money came from selling movie scenarios rather than books, which led him to produce calculatedly film-friendly novels with tons of action and very little characterization or extraneous description. Guns Of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, When Eight Bells Toll, Puppet On a Chain, Breakheart Pass, and Hostage Tower to name a few. I bet most here have seen these and never knew he wrote the novels. |