Bear Island (novel)
First edition cover (UK)  | |
| Author | Alistair MacLean | 
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| Language | English | 
| Genre | Thriller novel | 
| Publisher | Collins (UK) Doubleday (US)  | 
Publication date  | 1971 | 
| Publication place | United Kingdom | 
| Preceded by | Caravan to Vaccarès | 
| Followed by | Alistair MacLean Introduces Scotland (non-fiction) | 
Bear Island is a thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. Originally published in 1971 with a cover by Norman Weaver, it was the last of MacLean's novels to be written in first-person narrative. This novel is a murder mystery with the added twist that the scene of the crimes is Bear Island, an island in the Svalbard archipelago of the Norwegian Arctic.