(1924-    ) UK author, almost exclusively of thrillers, often in a war setting, his best known novel probably being A Long Day's Dying (1962); his pseudonyms have been used only for nonfantastic works. Of sf interest is Black Alert (1985), a Near Future Technothriller in which a renegade soldier, who has gained control of a military Spaceship, attempts to instigate World War Three by bombing London. [JC]

Alan White

born Yorkshire: 1924

died

works (very highly selected)

• Black Alert (London: HarperCollins, 1985) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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