Ice Reich

by William Dietrich

Book Overview

Bush pilot Owen Hart is recruited by Germany's fanatical new government in 1938 to participate in a top-secret expedition to Antarctica. While there, he gets involved with a brilliant and beautiful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446607444
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.3" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Cold-hearted Nazis in Frozen Antartica

Because of his experience in flying in icy weather conditions, ordinary good-guy American Owen Hart is asked to serve as pilot for a German team on an expedition to Antarctica. Thinking he can keep himself uninvolved emotionally and politically, little does Hart know what he's getting himself into!To begin with, he falls for the girlfriend of the fiendish Nazi Drexler, immediately setting himself up for problems. When they land on the Antacticic island, which landscape the author incredibly describes, they come across the wreck of a ship with dead bodies. When it is discovered that these sailors died of some bacteria on the island, a race begins to find an antidote to save themselves from death by the same bacteria. Searching the island, Hart and his love interest, biologist Greta, end up in an underground spring, where they experience romance, and then danger. Now that Drexler is suspicious about his girlfriend and Hart, he has diabolical schemes for getting rid of him. Hart and Greta battle the Nazis at an increasing pace as danger and horrific death threatens from all angles: treks and falls through ice, deadly bacteria, Nazi weapons and deception. Increasingly, Hart must become the hero to protect himself and Greta, and ultimately the world, which could be terribly threatened by the Nazis if they get their hands on that bacteria and turn it into a biological weapon!The vivid and unusual setting descriptions, incorporation of elements based on real historical events, diabolical bad guys you love to hate, variety of dangers faced, and several close escapes all added up to great fun!

Ice Reich

THE BOOK WAS GREAT! Fiction mixed with non-fiction! The beginning of the book was slow, but when it progressed, I was unable to put it down! The book was SO good, that I lent it to my school-mates for them to read! I like how the book goes into detail...that is always a + in my mind!

a screen play possibility!

This book would make a great movie. It has everything:romance,biology,doomsday ideas, the old Germany ,and their cronies,Anthartica, aviation,jealousy,a u-boat,ships ramming each other,and even leopard seals. Its a fun filled book that is not easily put down.....

Ice Reich is worth saluting.

Ice Reich is the best Antarctic thriller since Payne Harrison's Thunder of Erebus. A former science reporter for the Seattle Times, author William Dietrich is particularly adept at bringing to life all subjects. His characters are as bright and vivid as the Antarctic scenery he skillfully describes. The plot is brilliant and the action does not get bogged down in history or nature lectures which happens so often in other Antartic-themed novels. If you like Jack Higgins' WW II thrillers, or if you like books about Antarctica, you'll find Ice Reich very entertaining.This a brilliant debut novel and readers will be left very satisfied--except for the occasional pang of anticipation for Mr. Dietrich's next novel.

Excellent!!

If you like Clive Clussler you will love this book! William Dietrich weaves a great tale of adventure and yes, even love. From a plane crash in Alaska, to Germany at the end of World War 2. The Author provides you a wild ride of adventure, love and suspense, that keeps you turning the pages way after midnight. A gamble on a new Author, but well worth the price.