Ice Station Zebra
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (944 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0006161413 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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'A thoroughly professional cliff-hanger' Sunday Telegraph
Is the movie better? I say so. There are so many "Oh, I loved the book so much more than the movie!" reviews everywhere. This is not one of them.I happened to like the movie more than the book. While the character development is more complex, the characters are more numerous, and the story is. Real as a Blizzard !!! Captain Jack Sparrow Another winner; total new characters and suspense. I have been to the Alaska pipeline and this is REAL !!!. Not your familiar Cold War story. J. C. Aston Some significant differences from the classic movie. First person narrative is a little confusing at times.
Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers,
A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense.The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice-floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle.But the orders do not say what the Dolphin will find if she succeeds – that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage, and that one of the survivors is a killer…