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Night Without End

By: Alistair MacLean
Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
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From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic.

An airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive.

But for the members of a remote scientific research station who rescue them, there are some sinister questions to answer – the first one being, who shot the pilot before the crash?

©2017 Alistair MacLean (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers Action & Adventure Classics Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Fiction Thriller Detective Technology Exciting

Critic reviews

'’A classic locked-room mystery, but set on the polar ice cap’ Lee Child

‘Admirably written – one gasps and freezes and burns with the frightful cold'
Sunday Times

'Hair-raising! MacLean had done it again' Manchester Evening News
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Good story. Not the best narrator. You can see where Ice Station Zebra develop from.

Good story

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This is an exceptional early work by Alistair Maclean, believably describing a hazardous 1959 trek across the Greenland ice cap, in a failing pre-war tractor and in the company of an unidentified murderer or murderers, in possession of a stolen Cold War secret. Great stuff! Why they never made a movie out of it while they could (i.e. before woke and inclusivity) I cannot imagine.

Literally, a chilling thriller!

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One of Maclean books I’ve never read. Claustrophobic sort of story and personally didn’t enjoy the readers voice. 7/10

Night without end

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You know what to expect with an Alistair McLean novel and this novel delivers it in spades. Great story with genuine suspense and really well paced.

One of the best McLean stories

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A spy thriller that throughout,the listener can feel the intense cold, feel the frostbite, feel the despair that the characters are experiencing for themselves. A gripping storyline throughout right up until the last word. Brilliantly narrated. A first class audible book.

Spy thriller

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