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Ice Hunt
by: James Rollins

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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780792729709
Format: Unabridged
ISBN: 0792729706
Label: Sound Library
Manufacturer: Sound Library
Number Of Items: 12
Publication Date: 2003-08
Publisher: Sound Library
Sales Rank: 2015433
Studio: Sound Library

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Buried deep in the earth's polar ice cap -- carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States -- is a secret place, the site of a remarkable abandoned experiment that could have frightening ramifications for the planet. The brain trust of the former Soviet Union who created the seventy-year-old Ice Station Grendel would like it simply to melt from human memory. But that becomes impossible when an American undersea research vessel, the Polar Sentinel, inadvertently pulls too close to the hollowed-out iceberg ... and one of the crew sees something alive inside. Something that never should have survived.

It is a discovery that sends shock waves through the intelligence communities of two powerful nations, as American and Russian scientists, soldiers, and unsuspecting civilians are pulled into Grendel's lethal vortex of secrets, violence, and betrayal. To preserve the silence -- to prevent others from uncovering the terrible mysteries locked behind submerged walls of ice and steel -- no measures will be too extreme. For within the station, experiments have blurred the line between life and death. It was a place never meant to be found.

One man already knows too much: Matthew Pike, a former American Special Forces operative, living in seclusion in Alaska on the edge of the Arctic Circle. On the run after rescuing the survivor of a plane crash no one was meant to observe, Pike is relentlessly drawn into the eye of the gathering storm -- even as a Russian nuclear attack submarine draws silently nearer to the men and women on the Polar Sentinel. The covert battle over Grendel is spinning out of control, and the future of all human life on Earth will be altered -- or destroyed -- once its nightmarish truths are revealed.

A masterful blending of science and adventure, suspense and explosive page-turning excitement, James Rollins's Ice Hunt is a novel that will chill readers to the bone, holding them in its icy grip from the first sentence to its final startling twist.

Amazon.com Review:
Despite the submarine cover art and the rather awkward title, this is no by-the-numbers military thriller: rather, it's a full-blooded, multidimensional adventure story set in the frozen wilds of Alaska, both atop the ice and underneath it. And it's one heck of a fun ride. Matthew Pike is a Fish and Game officer cataloging bear populations in the remote Brooks Range--but he's also an ex-Green Beret, which comes in handy when trouble drops out of the sky in the form of a crashed bush plane, a cryptic survivor, and some very nasty and well-equipped pursuers. Meanwhile, an American submarine stumbles on an abandoned research station buried under the Arctic ice cap, unleashing a race to conceal the horrors that took place there and to capture the priceless scientific secret still locked within.

James Rollins invokes the polar environment so vividly you can hear the wind shriek and feel the ice forming on your nose, and the scientific/medical puzzles at the story's heart may remind you of Michael Crichton's best. The characters, while mostly familiar hero or villain types, are crisply drawn and in some cases quite sympathetic, but it's the nonstop action that carries you along. During several climactic chase scenes, you may find yourself laughing in pure delight--or gasping for breath--as Rollins keeps finding ways to ratchet up the tension one more notch. Ice Hunt is an escapist's delight. --Nicholas H. Allison

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- book review
This was the third Rollins' book I've read, and I was a bit disappointed by the walking killer whales. It was like an animated scene from a bad cartoon. If you can get past this, the book still lives up to the suspense and unexpected climax.

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- What hides in a place that few get to see?
This book has sat inconspicuously next to my computer desk on it's shelf for two years and I don't know what exactly propelled me to pick it up but I'm glad I finally did! I tend to collect adventure stories that reach all corners of the Earth, even go between the layers and I especially love all the ice stories such as this one. The good news is that this book is fantastic, it reads like a movie and sometimes goes in opposite direction of reality and belief but it makes for a heck of a read. The bad news, it's long, well only 505 pages but Rollins could use a good editor and chop off about a hundred because he loves to write about ever single step everyone takes, especially when it comes to fighting and explaining how to maneuver submarines, helicopters and all sorts of vehicles. Maybe it's a dude thing, maybe if I was a guy I'd love it little more, not sure, but I am patient and still enjoyed the book because the ... Read More

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- One of Rollins' best Books
If you like books that start with excitement then you will like this book several times over; An Eskimo Village Vanishes -- A submerged and abandoned Ice base discovered at the polar ice cap with scores of dead bodies -- A game warden pulled a survivor out of a crashed plane and then they were the targets of multiple groups of assassins -- A sub sails from Russia with a secret and deadly mission.

Ice Hunt had a lot of interesting history mixed in with some science fiction that together created a story that was non-stop with surprise after surprise. Characters changed from hero to villain and vis-versa as the plot unwound. Definitely another thriller by Rollins.

Author of al-Qaeda Strikes Again

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- Good read, but a little hard to take at times
I love fiction, and love to immerse myself in the plot; as a result, I find it easy to suspend disbelief and enjoy the story -- I am not one to notice minor plot holes. Ice Hunt reads quickly enough to allow readers like me to lose themselves in the plot. Although there are several arcs to the main story, they fit well and are easy enough to keep together without becoming confused.
My main complaints:
1) Details that don't NEED to be fictionalized are missed. For example, a Navy captain's rank insignia is referred to as "captain's bars." That is a huge mistake that could be spotted by anyone who knows anything about the Navy or the military in general (even people who have only watched JAG or Top Gun). In this example and others, blatantly missed facts make it harder to suspend the disbelief that is so important to enjoying the story being told. How can you believe the author's description of a submarine, ... Read More

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