Description

From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic.

400 miles north of the Arctic Circle, an airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive.

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?

Then, with communications cut and supplies running low, the station doctor must lead the survivors on a desperate bid to reach the coast, knowing all the while that there is a ruthless enemy in their midst, someone working to accomplish their destruction.

Publisher Review

''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