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Which reminds me: "Ice Station Zebra" is also at least as much a wilderness survival story as a spy novel, and I didn't mind that. Imagine a merger of a Tom Clancy novel (with exceptional military detail) with a mystery whodunit like Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None. The fictional nuclear-powered submarine Tigerfish (SSN-509) was portrayed in the movie by the diesel-electric Guppy IIA class sub USS Ronquil (SS-396) when seen on the surface.

One point that irked me a little is that the author is clearly British, and as such many of the Americans sometimes speak exactly how the British think Americans might speak, not all "Howdy" cowboy-like, but in that the American characters sometimes use terms and phrases and mannerisms that remind me of British officers rather than Americans.He expressed disappointment that the special effects did not, in his opinion, live up to advance claims, comparing them unfavorably to the effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Carpenter, and two other crew members alight a few miles near the station, and braving a blizzard, reach the station, where they are greeted with a scene of devastation. Since it’s a drifting station, due to the north pole’s circular motion, nobody can actually pin point where it is. Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain), the son of a Scots Minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands.

For submerging and surfacing scenes, the diesel-electric Guppy IA USS Blackfin (SS-322) was used, near Pearl Harbor. I guessed who the Soviet agent was long before the end, not because there were any pointers, but because he was the only person from the ice station who had more than a couple of lines. There's so much detail on the workings of a submarine, in fact, that it might deter many from reading on. It premiered at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles on October 23, 1968, where Rock Hudson was heckled at the premiere. An attractive copy with some minor edge wear, some rubbing at crown and two old tape marks to reverse side folds.What he does offer is good storytelling, mixing the spy genre with the whodunit feel of a great detective novel. It turns out the movie was a pretty loose adaptation of the book - they even changed the names of the characters and the rescue vessel, which seems weird. Powieść chwilami uroczo niedzisiejsza (ach, te nowinki technologiczne z lat ‘60), ale zaskakująco dziarska, jak na piędziesięioośmiolatkę, bo poza trącącymi myszką technikaliami tak forma jak treść jest świeża i jak najbardziej strawna dla dzisiejszego czytelnika i jest świetnym dowodem na to, że na objętości niecałych trzystu stron można napisać pełnokrwisty miks thrillera, kryminału i książki przygodowej. After setting sail, a Kaman SH-2 Seasprite helicopter delivers Captain Anders, a strict officer who takes command of the Marines, and Boris Vaslov, a Russian defector and spy, who Jones trusts.

I felt that the pace of the book did not run hand in hand with the amount of information presented and digested in the plot. Else, very good+ condition in very good dust jacket that has some edgewear at spine ends and light discoloration bottom of spine and next to it rear. The book is a great read, but then I haven't found a single one of Maclean's books that I didn't enjoy.Just before they embark, the narrator, Dr Carpenter, requests permission to board the rescue mission. The plots almost always draw me in, but as with the aforementioned Goodbye, Californiaor The Golden Gate (1976), plot can take the story only so far. And best of all there is also some nice suspense and pacing for at least two-thirds of the movie's three-hour length. In fact, after reporting a catastrophic fire which killed a few of its men, the remote British arctic monitoring station went off grid. Jedynym, ale znaczącym minusem produkcji (nie treści) jest dla mnie to, że przy superprodukcjach narracja pierwszoosobowa średnio sprawdza się, bo wprowadza spory zamęt.

The submarine sails beneath the thick Arctic pack ice but is unable to break through with its conning tower.This is even more contrast vis a vis his admiring descriptions of Swanson’s infallible, placating and impeccable character. Jones finds another tracking device but is knocked out by Vaslov, a Soviet double-agent and the saboteur. There are beautiful abstract patterns made by the sub as it cuts its way through the North Sea, all the gleaming, meticulous, finely wrought, intricate machinery inside the sub, and huge chunks of mountainous ice hanging down from the roof of the ice cap like molars. 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.



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