Night Without End

Night without end. Alistair Maclean
An airplane crash lands on the Greenland ice cap far from its usual route after flying in a seemingly erratic fashion. A scientific research team based near thecrash site rescues the surviving passengers and takes them to their station. The team finds that one passenger and most of the flight crew are dead with one of the pilots to be shot in the back. Theonly means of contact with the outside world, a radio set, is destroyed in a seemingly accidental manner.

With not enough food for everyone and no hope of rescue, the leader of the scientificresearch team, Dr Mason, decides that they must set out for the nearest settlement. Meanwhile the pilot who was shot and in a coma is found to have been suffocated. An attempt is also made on Dr.Mason lifeby getting him to be lost in the arctic night. The scientists suspicion falls on stewardess but she is soon cleared. Dr.Mason orders the radio operator, London, to stay behind and repair the radio sothat a field expedition can be contacted. The dead passenger is determined to be a military courier and soon after that the wreck goes up in flames.

Dr.Mason leaves with the group along with theother scientist, Jackstraw while remaining in touch with their station by means on a short range radio. Meanwhile, the field expedition returns to the station and contacts Dr.Mason. They inform him thata massive military mobilization has happened to locate the crashed plane and that it carried something very important. The governments having refused to divulge anything have tried to contactDr.Mason's station. Finding the station to be non-responding, they have requested the expedition chief, Captain Hillcrest to check out the station.

Dr.Mason decides to go on with the journey since anyattempt to return will induce the murderers to act and keeps this new developments to himself and Jackstraw. Captain Hillcrest sets out after the group but soon finds that the petrol he picked up the...