by Alistair Maclean (401)
PLOT Commander James Ferraday, USN, has new orders: get David Jones, a British civilian, Captain Anders, a tough Marine with a platoon of troops, Boris Vasilov, a friendly Russian, and the crew of the nuclear sub USS Tigerfish to the North Pole to rescue the crew of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a weather station at the top of the world. The mission takes on new and dangerous twists as the crew finds out that all is not as it seems at Zebra, and that someone will stop at nothing to prevent the mission from being completed.
Douglas Terman
At an underground factory in Siberia, the Russians have made a replica of a U.S. Navy warhead. Soviet military planners review their ability to survive all-out nuclear war. The KGB selects as its target for high-level political subversion a vulnerable U.S. senator with presidential ambitions.
John Gardner
British spymaster Herbie Kruger investigates his own spy network in East Berlin, the Telegraph Boys, for a double agent when one KGB officer commits suicide in East Germany and another defects
Ruth Rendell
The clumsy efforts of two amateur bank robbers give bank manager Alan Groombridge a chance to realize his dreams of trading a dull life for passion and adventure, but his conscience soon gets in the way
Helen MacInnes
A young woman is innocently caught up in a terrorist organization that is under surveillance by an army major she once loved at age fifteen.