High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ice Station Zebra is a 1963 thriller novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. This was the last of MacLean`s classic sequence of first person narratives which began with Night Without End, and represented a return to that earlier novel`s Arctic setting. After completing this novel, whose plotline parallels real-life events during the Cold War, MacLean retired from writing for three years. In 1968 it was adapted into a film of the same name.