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Loading... Ice Station Zebra (original 1963; edition 1994)by Alistair MacLean
Work InformationIce Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean (1963)
  
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 10 of the Greatest Cold War Spy Novels “Scottish adventure specialist McLean offers up one of the best Cold War thrillers in the nuclear submarine sub-genre. About to depart on a supposed mission of mercy, Captain Swanson of the USS Dolphin is ordered to take along a British doctor to aid survivors of a fire-ravaged weather station on an Arctic ice floe. Though the conflict with the Soviets is subtler here than in the well-known 1968 film version, the Cold War is the real engine of the sub’s mission, the frostbite ‘doctor’ a British Intelligence agent, with Russian spies coming into play. Few could write the men-on-a-dangerous-mission adventure yarn better than McLean (The Guns of Navarone, 1957); this one is suggested by real events.” Is contained inWhere Eagles Dare / H.M.S. Ulysses / Ice Station Zebra / When Eight Bells Toll / The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean Five cased novels: The Golden Gate, Force 10 From Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, The Golden Rendezvous, The Guns of Navarone. by Alistair MacLean When Eight Bells Toll / San Andreas / The Lonely Sea / Partisans / Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean Alistair MacLean's World War Thrillers (Where Eagles Dare|Ice Station Zebra|Fear is the Key) by Alistair MacLean Alistair MacLean Arctic Chillers (Night Without End, Ice Station Zebra, Bear Island, Athabasca) by Alistair MacLean Has the adaptationHas as a student's study guideDistinctions
The nuclear submarine "Dolphin" has impossible orders: Sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of research station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice pack somewhere within the Arctic Circle. But the orders can't prepare the crew for what they'll find if their mission is successful -- that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage and one of the survivors is a killer... No library descriptions found. |
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