Alistair MacLean Dies in Munich

FRANKFURT, West Germany — Alistair MacLean, the author of “The Guns of Navarone” and one of Britain’s leading postwar writers, died today in Munich. He was 64.

In London, MacLean’s publisher said he suffered a stroke three weeks ago while visiting a friend in the Bavarian capital and died in a hospital of heart failure.

The Scottish-born MacLean was also the author of “Ice Station Zebra” (1963) and many other adventure novels.