Ice Station Zebra

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Ice Station Zebra also uses the accelerating Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union as the backdrop for the novel, and may have been directly inspired by news accounts from 17 April 1959, about a missing experimental Corona satellite capsule ( Discoverer 2) that inadvertently landed near Spitzbergen on 13 April and may have been recovered by Soviet agents.

I initially picked out this book because I like reading about polar expeditions, both real and imagined.The escalating production costs of this film, along with the poorly-received The Shoes of the Fisherman at the same time, led to the transfer of MGM President Robert O'Brien to chairman of the board, though he resigned that position in early 1969, after both films were released and failed to recoup their costs. The dustjacket of this book has been protected in a removable glass-clear plastic film supplied by Librex Book Roll.

Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 American espionage thriller film directed by John Sturges and starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown. The pacing is much better in the latter 75% and keeps a steady gait throughout, never slowing too much before something else happens, especially once the crew knows there’s a killer in their midst. This is even more contrast vis a vis his admiring descriptions of Swanson’s infallible, placating and impeccable character.

Considering books with wartime themes, Alistair MacLean is one of the few authors who understands and brings about the wartime scenario very well in his books. On December 21, 1968, Renata Adler reviewed the film for The New York Times: "a fairly tight, exciting, Saturday night adventure story that suddenly goes all muddy in its crises. 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. J K Rowling tries to draw both themes close in her last book, but the impression of the reading experience, or the scenario presentation is nowhere near as intense as Alistair MacLean's, or Anne Frank's , and ultimately,one has to fall back on Rowling's own imagination.

While looking around, Carpenter finds evidence of foul play, and believes the fire to be caused due to arson and not by accident. And, unfortunately, we got the added specialty of maritime operations after graduating the Royal Danish Navy's Fromandkorpset combat swim course-- being in the North Sea in November wasn't fun-- but locking out of a sub really sucked. The special effects, of deep water, submarine and ice, are convincing enough—a special Super Panavision, Metrocolor, Cinerama claustrophobia.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. He has woven science, a whole lot of it, and a bit more, history, geography, propaganda with fiction into such a rivetting whodunnit murder story that it makes it so hard for you to put it down.