Alistair MacLean · 1971 · sea

Alistair MacLean's 1971 thriller. The old trawler Morning Rose carries a film crew north across the Barents Sea to Bear Island, a bleak dot of rock far above the Arctic Circle, to shoot on location. But the script is a secret, few aboard are who they claim, and one by one the passengers begin to die - a chain of murder that reaches back to a hidden crime of the Second World War.

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   Norway

   From a northern Norwegian port, the battered old trawler Morning Rose puts to sea carrying a film unit bound for a remote Arctic island - though only the producer and writer know what the secret script is really about.

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   The Barents Sea

   As the ship pitches north across the wild Barents Sea, members of the crew and film party begin to sicken and die one by one, and the doctor Marlowe realises that a killer is at work - and that few aboard are who they claim to be.

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   Bear Island

   Put ashore on bleak Bear Island, far beyond the reach of help, the survivors find the murders following them onto the ice - and Marlowe uncovers a secret of hidden wartime plunder that someone will kill again and again to keep.