Alistair MacLean has an unmistakable and unrivalled skill in writing about the sea and its power and about the men and women who sail it. His distinctive voice was evident from his very first prize winning story, The Dileas, and has been heard time and again in his international career as the author of such bestsellers as H.M.S. ULYSSES and SAN ANDREAS. THE LONELY SEA starts where MacLean's career started, with The Dileas, and collects together his stories of the sea. Here is a treasury of vintage MacLean, compelling and brilliant, where the master storyteller is in his element.