Somewhat unrelated - for those who don&#x27;t know Alistair MacLean[1] was a novelist, mostly war thrillers, adventures.  My grandpa - a voracious reader and a retired judge spent most of his retirement reading and walking, he turned me on to Alistair MacLean by describing his experience of reading <i>Ice Station Zebra</i> (based on the north pole) as if &quot;you feel the chill in your bones as you read it&quot;.  So I read that, and ever sing book Alistair MacLean has authored.  These were the first novels I read in English.  After going through entire works of Alistair MacLean, I went through pretty much any other book I can get my hands on.  And the _best_ part was finishing something, going downstairs to grandpa&#x27;s room and telling him, his response was almost always - &quot;oh yes, I read that in 19XX, love the character X doing something with Y&quot;.<p>Reading the title of the post was a pang of nostalgia, I can still remember him telling me about Ice Station Zebra, Night Without End, Where Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone.  I miss him.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alistair_MacLean" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alistair_MacLean</a>