When was the Scottish author died who wrote the novel  Fear Is the Key?
Alistair MacLean Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: "Alasdair MacGill-Eain" ; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. His works include "The Guns of Navarone", "Ice Station Zebra" and "Where Eagles Dare" – all three were made into popular films. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart.
Shadow Country Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in 2008. Subtitled "A New Rendering of the Watson Legend", it is a semi-fictional account of the life of Scottish-American Edgar "Bloody" Watson (1855–1910), a real Florida sugar cane planter and alleged outlaw who was killed by a posse of his neighbors in the remote Ten Thousand Islands region of southwest Florida. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008