Ice Hunt

July 2003 (July 2004 Paperback)/Fiction-Thriller, Publisher: Avon (Harper Collins)
By James Rollins/Jim Czajkowski. 509 pgs.
Overview: B&N, Amazon, Wiki, MC
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. (B&N)
Review: B+ (2.18.07) As the second book of his that I have read, it is exactly the action fiction with twists that I wanted to be reading. There is even a few pages of interesting notes provided by the author. I have come to the conclusion that I really don't like back of the book previews. I don't read them. In this book, there is an additional 15 pages in the back for Map of Bones (the book that comes out after the next one). I already picked up the next two James Rollins paperback books, so...another reason why I don't care to read it.