Why did I love this book?
I am a huge fan of MacLean’s work and in Ice Station Zebra he crafted a wonderful novel that pitted the protagonists against not just the antagonists, but also the weather.
As he so often does, MacLean has created a take of high-stakes derring-do, but with this novel he added an extra foe, the frigid weather of the Arctic Circle. Can you imagine battling to catch a killer when there are ice spicules being blown across a frozen tundra? Whether you can or can’t, you need to read this fantastic novel.
3 authors picked Ice Station Zebra as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
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, and somehow 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.