An airplane
crash lands on the Greenland ice cap far from its usual route after flying in a
seemingly erratic fashion. A scientific research team based near the crash site
rescues the surviving passengers and takes them to their station. The team
finds that one passenger and most of the flight crew are dead with one of the
pilots to be shot in the back. The only means of contact with the outside
world, a radio set, is destroyed in a seemingly accidental manner.
With not enough food for everyone and no hope
of rescue, the leader of the scientific research team, Dr Mason, decides that
they must set out for the nearest settlement.
They lift a
lot of adventerures, because a group of criminals were founding them. But one
day they manage to catch up the criminals near the shore where a trawler waits
for the criminals. But the intervention of navy, on information from Captain
Hillcrest, frightens off the trawler. The criminals are surrounded here and
after a bitter hand to hand combat between the protagonists and the criminals,
the mechanism and the hostages are rescued.
My
favourite protagonist was DR. Mason because I liked his determination and his
control of the situacion.
I liked the
book, it is good, but it’s difficult for read and at the beginning I missed the
weft.
Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots Minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941, at the age of eighteen, he joined the Royal Navy; two and a half years spent aboard a cruiser were to give him the background for 'HMS Ulysses', his first novel, the outstanding documentary novel on the war at sea. After the war he gained an English Honours degree at Glasgow University, and became a schoolmaster. In 1983, he was awarded a D. Litt. from the same university.
Maclean is the author of twenty-nine world bestsellers and recognised as an outstanding writer in his own genre. Many of his titles have been adapted for film - 'The Guns of the Navarone', 'Force Ten from Navarone', 'Where Eagles Dare' and 'Bear Island' are among the most famous.
Maclean is the author of twenty-nine world bestsellers and recognised as an outstanding writer in his own genre. Many of his titles have been adapted for film - 'The Guns of the Navarone', 'Force Ten from Navarone', 'Where Eagles Dare' and 'Bear Island' are among the most famous.
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