Alistair MacLean BEAR ISLAND First Edition

First edition first print hardback of BEAR ISLAND by Alistair MacLean and published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd in 1971.

The book is in very good condition (green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with light rubbing to the top edge and light creasing to the bottom of the spine as well as light age tanning and age spotting to the page edges. The book is in a very good clipped dust jacket which has light creasing to the top of the front and back covers and top and bottom of the spine. Internally the front endpaper is very lightly age spotted and the pages have lightly yellowed but they are otherwise clean and tight and there are no tears or inscriptions.

Bear Island, known as the wartime graveyard of the Arctic, where Nazi submarines lay in wait for the Murmansk convoys, is the setting for Alistair MacLean's new novel.

As the charter ship Morning Rose sails through wintry seas toward the island, the doctor on board, Christopher Marlowe, is kept busy attending to his sea-sick patients - the members of a film unit who are to make a film on Bear Island so secret that none of them know much about it. Then another, more mysterious malady attacks them and in some cases proves fatal. But there is something highly unnatural about both the illness and its selection of victims. The Morning Rose has a murderer on board. 

286 pages.

ISBN: 0002210843

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