Alistair MacLean · 1963 · sea

Alistair MacLean's 1963 Cold War thriller. The nuclear submarine Dolphin is given impossible orders: to sail from Scotland beneath the frozen Arctic Ocean and rescue the survivors of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a British weather station ablaze and adrift on the polar ice. But the fire was sabotage, a deadly secret lies buried in the ice - and one of the survivors is a killer.

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   Holy Loch

   From the submarine base at Holy Loch in Scotland, the atomic submarine Dolphin slips out with the mysterious Dr Carpenter aboard, under orders to reach a burning weather station adrift somewhere on the far polar ice.

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   The Arctic ice

   Diving beneath the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean, the Dolphin gropes blind through the dark, hunting for a lead in the ice through which to surface, as a saboteur aboard works to doom her mission.

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   Ice Station Zebra

   The submarine breaks through to Drift Ice Station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting near the top of the world - where Carpenter's mission, a Cold War secret, and a murderer among the survivors all await.