Night Without End - Alistair MacLean > Reviews > Save it for a cold chilly winter's night!

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Would you listen to it again?	Probably not
Story	Good
Characters	Outstanding
Listenability	Once you start it, you won't be able to switch it off!
How does it compare to audio works by the same author?	Very good

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yes

Full review

I will confess before I begin to having a weakness for Alistair MacLean's novels. However, I do not follow conventional wisdom as to which are the best. I struggled to get into "The Guns of Navarone", which is reputed to be his 'pièce de résistance'. No such troubles with "Night Without End", I'm glad to report. The tension rises like the tide - insatiably, grippingly - before easing off to rise again later. We identify easily with the chief protagonist as the book as been written in the first person. Writing in this way can seem amateurish in the hands of a lesser writer, but MacLean uses it expertly.

I do not want to give away two much of the plot, save to say that the narrator is part of a party of scientists journeying through Greenland. One of their number is picking them off and it's a race between time to see if the narrator and his friends can catch the killer before he catches them. Engrossing!