Bear Island

By: Alistair MacLean

Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver

Reissue of the classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location filming, but the script is a secret known only to the producer and screenwriter.

En route, members of the movie crew and ship's company begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The crew's doctor, Marlowe, finds himself enmeshed in a violent multi-layered plot in which very few of the persons aboard are whom they claim to be.

Marlowe's efforts to unravel the plot become even more complicated once the movie crew is deposited ashore on Bear Island, beyond the reach of the law or outside help. The murders continue ashore, and Marlowe, who is not what he seems to be either, discovers they may be related to some forgotten events of the Second World War.

©1971 Alistair MacLean (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

'Edge-of-the-seat stuff…MacLean is back in the location he writes about best' The Times

'Alistair MacLean is brilliant at building up the tension' Sunday Mirror

'A magnificent storyteller' Sunday Mirror

‘The most successful British novelist of his time’ Jack Higgins

Good book

The story starts off a bit confusing and slowly. However, it will pick up and gets better.

MacLean is a master!

An excellent story as only MacLean can tell it!!! The master of intrigue strikes again!

I thought the reading was good

Sometimes I got lost in the story, as to who the characters were and what place they took.