Ice Station Zebra. Alistair MacLean

      

      ALISTAIR MACLEAN

       Ice Station Zebra

       Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by Collins 1963

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      Source ISBN: 9780006161417

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2005 ISBN: 9780007289325

      Version: 2020-09-07

       Dedication

       To Lachlan, Michael and Alistair

      U.S.S. Dolphin

      1. Rudder

      2. Stern Room

      3. Nucleonics Room

      4. Manœuvring Room

      5. Engine Room

      6. Machinery space

      7. Passage over reactor

      8. Reactor Room

      9. Sail

      10. Bridge

      11. Radio Room (port)

      12. Control Room

      13. Captain’s Cabin (port; Sickbay (starboard)

      14. Wardroom

      15. Inertial Navigation Room

      16. Electronics Room

      17. Crew’s Quarters

      18. Galley

      19. Medical Store

      20. Disposal Chute

      21. Periscope (retracted)

      22. Torpedo Storage Room

      23. Collision Space

      24. Torpedo Room

      25. Torpedo Tubes

      26. Bow caps

      ICE STATION ZEBRA

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

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Two

Three

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       Five

       Six

       Seven

       Eight

       Nine

       Ten

       Eleven

       Twelve

       Thirteen

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       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

       ONE

      Commander James D. Swanson of the United States Navy was short, plump and crowding forty. He had jet black hair topping a pink cherubic face, and with the deep permanent creases of laughter lines radiating from his eyes and curving round his mouth he was a dead ringer for the cheerful, happy-go-lucky extrovert who is the life and soul of the party where the guests park their brains along with their hats and coats. That, anyway, was how he struck me at first glance but on the reasonable assumption that I might very likely find some other qualities in the man picked to command the latest and most powerful nuclear submarine afloat I took a second and closer look at him and this time I saw what I should have seen the