The survivors

Hammond Innes

A drama of murder and its retribution provides the story for this contemporary adventure tale staged against the Antarctic. Duncan Craig, pilot hired by a Colonel Bland to go to the Antarctic regions where his company manager had disappeared, finds himself involved in the cause of the manager's death. Bland's son's guilt is established, although punishment is deferred when Bland rams the ship on one ice. From then on the survivors struggle to keep alive on the iceberg, and finally some are rescued. An absorbing story of tense action and bravery against almost impossible odds.