Partisans is a novel by the Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1982.

MacLean reverted to the theme of the Second World War, with which he was successful and highly popular in his early career.

It is not clear who Petersen is actually working for, as the plot meanders through the confusion of Yugoslavia's three-way civil war, with Communist Partisans, the Serb royalist Chetniks and the Croatian fascist Ustashe fighting as much against each other as against their Italian and German occupiers.

The New York Times said in the book Maclean "gives World War II the full [G.A.]

Henty treatment: stilted writing about cardboard characters engaged in a desperate enterprise.".