Bear Island (novel)

Bear Island
First edition cover (UK)
AuthorAlistair MacLean
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller novel
PublisherCollins (UK)
Doubleday (US)
Publication date
1971
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Preceded byCaravan to Vaccarès 
Followed byAlistair 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.