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Dr. Peter Mason – a scientist left in charge of a research station at this desolate place – and Jackstraw, an indefatigable, eagle-eyed Eskimo, go out to see if there are any survivors of the crash. As it turns out, there are other things to worry about in addition to the climate and the challenges it poses. Strange accidents smell of sabotage. And there is also a murderer among the surviving passengers. And what a cast of characters:
“What a bunch, I thought despairingly, what a crowd to be stuck with in the middle of the Greenland ice-plateau. A business executive, a musical comedy star, a minister of religion, a boxer with an uninhibited if cultured tongue, his zany manager, a London society playgirl and her young German maid, a Senator, a taciturn Jew and a near-hysterical hostess – or one apparently so. And a gravely injured pilot who might live or die.”
However, as it turns out, the passengers are not necessarily who they may seem to be. And why would an airliner scheduled to land in Reykjavik, Iceland have been so off-course?
The plot is superb, at the heart of it are stolen military secrets, and the suspense is smartly built by master storyteller MacLean – both the events taking place and the prose used by Maclean contributes. And the characters are well drawn and interesting, and so is the interaction between the characters. The combination of a whodunit and the fight for survival in the plot works very well. Night Without End is a very atmospheric thriller and an all time classic. A great tale and very entertaining!
Praise:
‘Admirably written — one gasps and freezes and burns with the frightful cold’ Sunday Times
‘Hair-raising! MacLean had done it again’ Manchester Evening News
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