Alistair MacLean’s UNACO (#1-7, 9-10) Series by Alistair MacLean, Alastair MacNeill, John Denis, Hugh MillerRequirements: ePUB reader, 3.0mb
Overview: UNACO, the United Nations Anti-Crime Organization, is a fictional agency within the United Nations created by author Alistair MacLean.
In 1980, MacLean was commissioned by an American movie production company to write a series of story outlines to be subsequently produced as movies. He invented UNACO as the device for the stories, writing notes and outlines for a number of adventures. MacLean himself did not expand the finished product, leaving that to other writers.
While some of the outlines were completed as screenplays, a greater number were expanded into novels. In 1980 and 1981, John Edwards (former editor of the BBC’s That’s Life programme) and Denis Frost worked together under the pen name "John Denis" on the first two novels/screenplays. A few years later, (1989–93) Alastair MacNeill wrote some screenplays and a number of novels from the source outlines. In the later 1990s, author Hugh Miller completed the last two UNACO novels, still working from MacLean’s original notes and outlines.
The prologue of each novel repeats the formation story for UNACO. The concept is that, "in September 1979, the Secretary-General of the United Nations chaired a meeting attended by 46 envoys representing virtually every country in the world…", creating UNACO to "…avert, neutralize, and/or apprehend individuals or groups engaged in international criminal activities. …UNACO’s clandestine existence began on March 1, 1980".
UNACO uses groups of people to form "strike forces". Each strike force has a leader who communicates with UNACO’s top commanders. UNACO also works with other agencies around the world.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Hostage Tower (1980) John DenisIntroducing UNACO – the United Nations Anti Crime Organisation – an elite team of agents who battle the world’s deadliest criminals. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO. The most ingenious criminal in the world has come up with his most spectacular exploit, to kidnap the mother of the president of the United States and hold her and the Eiffel Tower to ransom. He hires for his team:• a top weapons expert, who can steal and use the newest, most secret military equipment• the best cat burglar, who can scale any heights• a man whose extraordinary strength and ingenuity will conquer any obstacle. Faced with this audacious crime of the century, the world’s top politicians can only turn to UNACO and its team.
Air Force One Is Down (1981) John DenisSomeone wants revenge, and the target is the President’s plane. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO. The world’s most ingenious international criminal is bent on revenge! / Two men with the same name and the same face / And six of the most important men in the world aboard the President’s plane! Who pushed the button that destroyed Air Force One? Why must everyone be killed? Are they really dead? In this game of deception only UNACO and its daring team can be trusted to join the gamble – but can they win?
Death Train (1989) Alastair MacNeillIn Europe a train carrying a deadly cargo has been hijacked. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO.
Somewhere in Europe a train is carrying a deadly cargo of plutonium-IV packed in six reinforced steel kegs. But one of the kegs has been damaged… A unit of UNACO is sent to track down the kegs – and find out how and why the plutonium was stolen in the first place. Agents Sabrina Carver, Mike Graham and C.W. Whitlock find themselves up against a powerful conspiracy of interests, including a sinister arms dealer and a highly placed business magnate. Then comes the most frightening discovery of all.
Only five of the kegs contain plutonium. The contents of the sixth keg could have catastrophic results for the whole of Europe for generations to come. And time isn’t on their side…
Night Watch (1989) Alastair MacNeillAn adventure thriller based on an original story outline by Alistair MacLean. The plot centres on the theft of a Rembrandt painting sent round the world’s art galleries.
Red Alert (1990) Alastair MacNeillA deadly virus has been stolen, and the thieves plan to use the hundred million pound ransom to fund terrorist armies. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO.
The Italian Red Brigades raid the US-owned Neo Chem laboratory between Rome and Tivoli and steal a vial of deadly DNA virus. They plan to trade the vial – which if opened could kill millions – for a hundred million pounds, to be paid to the terrorist armies of five European countries. The deadline approaches: a summit conference in Switzerland, at which the terrorists threaten to release the virus into the atmosphere if their demands are not met.
UNACO agents Mike Graham, C.W. Whitlock and Sabrina Carver are summoned back urgently from leave. Their mission is to find and secure the vial before a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions takes place…
Time of the Assassins (1991) Alastair MacNeillThe African state of Zimbala has a new leader, but someone wants him dead – and the only man who knows details of the hit is being hunted by UNACO’s top agent on an illegal mission of personal vengeance. Can UNACO stop their top assassin from killing his nemesis?
Alphonse Mobuto has ruled the state of Zimbala for forty-five years. On his death, the Presidency passes to his eldest son, Jamel. Determined to introduce democracy and rid Zimbala of his father’s oppressive regime, Jamel faces retribution from those who once benefited from it.
In New York to deliver an important speech at the UN, Jamel is an obvious target for an assassin’s bullet. The time and place of the assassination are known by only one man, Jean Jacque Bernard, an international terrorist and now a CIA operative.
Clearly a case for UNACO. But deputy director Serge Kolchinsky realizes he has a potentially explosive situation on his hands. For he discovers crack team member Mike Graham has gone AWOL. Graham is in Beirut on a strictly illegal mission of personal vengeance – to track down and kill Bernard…
Alistair MacLean’s Dead Halt (1992) Alastair MacNeillA CONSPIRACY OF CHAOS
When a private schooner is smashed upon the rocks of Nantucket, a cache of brand-new ArmaLite Assault Rifles tumbles out. It’s only the first clue in a deadly puzzle that will take two extraordinary and daring agents to crack wide open.
UNACO agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver once again plunge themselves into a desperate investigation that tests their skills and courage. In a nonstop race around the globe, from the United States to England, Switzerland, and Ireland, Graham and Carver are caught in the mire of a worldwide intrigue that unites illegal arms traders, a vicious drug cartel, and the Mafia, in an international power gambit that threatens to shatter the peace of the world for our lifetime.
THIS TIME, THE FIGHT IS PERSONAL
Prime Target (1996) Hugh Miller An American government employee is murdered in cold blood on a London street, and a list of names, all German, all male, is found in her hotel room. It appears that two of the men have also met with violent deaths. Carver and Graham must crack the lethal conspiracy that threatens world security.
Borrowed Time (1997) Hugh Miller When a tip-off is received that militant religious extremists are taking over the peaceful Vale of Kashmir, dealing in drugs and guns to fund their war, two top agents are sent in to investigate. When the mission looks impossible, who do you call? UNACO. The Vale of Kashmir in India, precariously caught between Afghanistan, Pakistan and China, is one of the most serenely beautiful places on earth… and one of the most deadly. When Malcolm Philpott, head of UNACO, the United Nations’ Anti-Crime Organization, receives a tip-off from a local priest that the peace of the valley is being threatened by militant religious extremists and the suspicion of a highly organized drug-trafficking ring, he sends in two of his top agents, Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver, to investigate and question the priest further. But the priest is brutally murdered before they can arrive, and an ex-CIA-trained assassin, turned native, is the principal suspect. Suddenly Mike and Sabrina must undertake the lethal mission of infiltrating the murderous drug convoys and bringing the extremists under control before the volatile situation ignites and fans into an international blood bath.
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