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Ice Hunt

By: James Rollins

Category: fiction action adventure

Synopsis:

Suspense lives at the top of the world, in the latest breathtaking
thriller from James Rollins, the best-selling master of gripping
adventure who has kept readers spellbound with Subterranean,
Excavation, Deep Fathom, and Amazonia

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.

JAMES ROLLINS is the author of four previous nationally best selling