Ice Station Zebra

By: Alistair MacLean

Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver

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.

©2017 Alistair MacLean

Critic reviews

"A thoroughly professional cliff-hanger." ( Sunday Telegraph)

Much better than the movie

Loved the mystery and pace. Kept me guessing right to the end. The narrator’s American accent is awful though. Probably even worse than Miller’s accent in the Guns of Navarone

Enjoyable escapist entertainment

MacLean is an author from another age; you won’t find conflicted antiheroes or ambiguous endings. Just clearly defined heroes, with clearly defined motives, solving a mystery with a neatly defined ending. But just as watching an old episode of Columbo still has its pleasures, so does reading a book cut from the same cloth.

It’s helped quite a bit by the quality of narration—while he struggles with accents (his Texan needs work), his reading is clear and engaging, and his narrator’s voice is pleasant to hear.

Overall, this is a quality “dad book,” Great for listening to on a long drive, or while puttering in the garage.

Excellent writing, way better than the movie.

The reader was fantastic but had some trouble with the american accents. It does not take away from the story however. Well done!

excellent story, highly recommend

this was a well written story. the narrator was brittish and had used his heavy acvent when performing the many american characters. still story was great.

Suspenseful

Anyone who has seen the film version will enjoy the original novel that inspired it. The premise is the same, but the story is more involved, and adds a Whodunit element that was edited out of the screenplay. Well read by Jonathan Oliver whose voice reminds me a little of Patrick Mcgoohan. Well done!