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Ice Station Zebra

Alistair MacLean

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Ice Station Zebra is a 1963 thriller novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. It marked a return to MacLean's classic Arctic setting. After completing this novel, whose plot line parallels real-life events during the Cold War, MacLean retired from writing for three years. In 1968 it was loosely adapted into a film of the same name.

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GenreCrime & thriller· first published 1963

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Set in the Cold War and drawing on the tensions between the USA and the USSR at the time. Most of the action takes place on the northern polar ice and aboard the submarine that carries the MI6 agent Dr Carpenter to and from a meteorological station.