Ice Station Zebra

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• ceocoder · Oct 9, 2015 · Recommends

  …thrillers, adventures. My grandpa - a voracious reader and a retired judge spent most of his retirement reading and walking, he turned me on to Alistair MacLean by describing his experience of reading Ice Station Zebra (based on the north pole) as if "you feel the chill in your bones as you read it". So I read that, and ever sing book Alistair MacLean has authored. These were the first novels I read in English. After…

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• e15ctr0n · Mar 6, 2017 · Recommends

  …Key http://amzn.com/0006159915 ++ The Dark Crusader or The Black Shrike http://amzn.com/0006165435 ++ The Golden Rendezvous http://amzn.com/0006162592 ++ The Satan Bug http://amzn.com/B002RI9DAQ ++ Ice Station Zebra http://amzn.com/B0046A9MO0

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• themodelplumber · Dec 27, 2021 · Recommends

  Shibumi by Trevanian. Ice Station Zebra by MacLean. Clive Cussler novels. Tom Clancy. Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour. Scaramouche and Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini. (Note: Many of these contain some really ridiculous, outdated language…

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• themodelplumber · Feb 19, 2022 · Recommends

  …Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon - Watchmen by various - Star Trek: Doctor's Orders by Diane Duane - The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton - Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini - Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean - The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils by James Lovegrove - Contact by Carl Sagan - 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Top 11? :-)

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• pomian · Jun 19, 2021 · Recommends

  This reminds me of Alistair Maclean's book: Ice Station Zebra. Great book.

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• vram22 · May 3, 2017 · Mentions

  …writing, at least some parts of his books. Read them a lot as a kid. The only parts that were a bit tedious were the long descriptions of bad weather conditions in some of the novels set at sea, like Ice Station Zebra, H.M.S. Ulysses, etc. He tended to overdo those parts.

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• a4isms · Sep 23, 2026 · Mentions

  That was the McGuffin for the 1963 book "Ice Station Zebra" (and the 1968 film adaptation). A satellite with pictures of every missile launch site in the US malfunctions and is knocked off its planned orbit that would overfly the Soviet Union, so the race is…

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