A review by anikajb
Night Without End by Alistair MacLean

5.0

The language was so beautiful I kept a notebook besides me while I read so I could write down the phrases I particularly liked. I love Allister Maclean.

The book basically is about a plane that has crash landed in the Arctic circle, and there are ten survivors. The protagonist is Dr. Peter Mason, a researcher spending six months in there, and he and the other researchers essentially save the passengers. They are thousands of miles away from civilization in frigid subzero temperatures with low equipment and low food (since there were only enough supplies to sustain the researchers). 

If that wasn't bad enough, Mason explores the wreckage of the plane and sees that the pilots have been shot, meaning that one of the rescued passengers is the culprit. People start dying, their petrol supply is contaminated, their radio is tampered with and destroyed - the situation gets worse and worse while the passengers and researchers are stranded with a killer amongst them. 

You'll grow to really like the characters and it's a shock to learn who the actual villain is