Possible Clues:

• Spy novelist Alistair
• Alistair ____ wrote Ice Station Zebra
• 'The Guns of Navarone' writer Alistair
• Alistair ___, 'The Guns of Navarone' novelist
• Norman who wrote 'A River Runs Through It'
• Manacle unfastened by thriller writer
• "The Guns of Navarone" author Alistair
• Author Alistair
• Alistair who wrote 'Ice Station Zebra'