Night Without End

Night Without End

by Alistair Mac Lean (Author)

Synopsis

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?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 04 Jul 2005

ISBN 10: 0006161227
ISBN 13: 9780006161226
Book Overview: From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic. Competition: Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.

Media Reviews

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

'Hair-raising! MacLean had done it again' Manchester Evening News

Author Bio

Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.