Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
Ice Station Zebra
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
Buy Now for £13.00
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Summary
A classic thriller from the best-selling master of action and suspense.
The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean to 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....
Critic reviews
More from the same
What listeners say about Ice Station Zebra
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mark
- 05-10-17
Not the Movie, but still good
If you have seen the movie then the story here is similar for the first third to half of it, but it changes afterward. In fact the book is less cold war spy thriller ala the movie, but more arctic murder mystery.
The story is generally good, varied and interesting with a few moments that Macleans just about gets away with. There are some errors, for instance the mannicker schoenhower one (they never made pistols), but in general it is a good listen and worthy of a credit.
Where most of the recently release Maclean books fall down, is in the narration. Jonathan Oliver is ok and just about bearable in this one, unlike the Guns of Navarrone and Where Eagles Dare. He does better with the normal narration here, but he struggles to maintain the American accent, and I am not convinced with the irish and scottish ones. Some times he is good, sometimes it hurts my ears, which leads to a mixed response on my part.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Ruth
- 27-02-23
Excellent
Saw the film years ago but had never read the book. A must read and has stood the test of time,
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Nicus
- 19-02-23
Its age is showing
The story is nice but shows all its age. Monodimensional characters, playing braggart while facing with certain death. The sense of wonder for technologies that sounds silly nowadays, when we hold some of those bleeding edge techs in our phones.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mr B Ashton
- 09-10-18
Old school!
Revisited a book I read at school. Old school but engrossing and gripping. Wasn't sure about the narrator at first but actually he was very good.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Freda
- 27-07-17
Amazingly gripping...
This was a very exciting story with excellent narration. The audio was much better than the film, as the story was stronger and more believable.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mr
- 04-11-23
Love the book, not the narration.
I remember this book very fondly from an audio version I had when I was a teenager, and it still stands up magnificently. It's a great mystery story, and despite an occasional lapse into melodrama, it's superbly written with incredibly atmospheric descriptions of the conditions in the arctic. There's a crisis on the submarine towards the end of the book that still haunts me thanks to how well told it is.
What really lets it down in my estimation, is the narration. I don't think Oliver is a *bad* narrator per-se, but he reads the material without adequate pauses or emphasis, which makes everything run-on at an unsettling pace. The accents sometimes veer on the comical. With one of them sounding like a muppet, and *all* the Americans sounding like the same cliched southern hick.
Probably if you don't remember the version I remember with such fondness, it won't bother you so much.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- David Hogarth
- 12-07-23
Thoroughly enjoyable story.
I didn't want to put it down. I'll be listening to another McLean novel soon.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- David
- 07-05-23
Brilliant
A five star listen in every way. I’ve just looked up the date when to book was written - 1963 - but it hasn’t aged in my opinion.
I was trying to figure out ‘whodunnit’ throughout with very limited success.
I’ll now make a point of watching the film but suspect it won’t be as good as the book.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- D. Powys-Lybbe
- 03-05-23
Kept me guessing throughout
Classic storytelling, this novel was full of suspense - it dangled a piece of information but made me always wanting more, hence I could hardly put it down!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Adam Watsham
- 05-02-23
Shockingly poor narration & awful plot
Well I stuck with it & unfortunately it didn’t improve any.
Plot is dull & ending is terrible.
Narrators accents are awful.
So much unnecessary technical jargon on nuclear submarines that do nothing for the story.
Don’t waste a credit or your time.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!