Eternity Base

By Bob Mayer

Book Overview

ANTARCTICA, 1971. THEY BUILT SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND. NOW, 25 YEARS LATER, SOMEONE IS KILLING TO KEEP IT BURIED.

Former Green Beret Dave Riley is drowning in grief. Three days ago, Chicago cop Donna Giannini-the woman he loved-walked into a robbery and took a shotgun blast to the chest. She died returning fire, and Riley's plans for a new life died with her. When his old commander Colonel Mike Pike offers him work to escape the pain, Riley jumps at it. Just keep me busy. Just don't let me think.

But the job Pike hands him isn't simple security work. A records clerk named Sammy Pintella has stumbled onto something that wasn't supposed to exist: photos of "Eternity Base," a secret installation built in Antarctica in 1971 by an Army engineer company that officially spent those four months in Vietnam. Someone kidnapped Sammy, drugged her, and planned to kill her.

Now people are dying across the country. Professional hits. The kind that scream government black ops. And when Sammy's sister Conner, an investigative reporter, heads to Antarctica chasing the story, Riley and Pike realize this isn't about protecting witnesses-it's about stopping a cover-up that's been running for twenty-five years.

What was Eternity Base? Why did an entire C-130 crew die in a mysterious crash after their final mission there? What cargo was so secret it required executing everyone who knew about it? And who's willing to kill an entire team of investigators to keep it hidden under the ice?

As Riley leads an unauthorized expedition to the most remote and hostile environment on Earth, he's racing against killers who've had 25 years to perfect their security. The Antarctic winter is closing in. Temperatures plunge to 70 below. Blizzards can bury a base in minutes. And somewhere under the ice lies a secret so explosive that powerful forces will commit mass murder to protect it.

ETERNITY BASE is an explosive military thriller from Bob Mayer combining conspiracy, Cold War secrets, and survival action in the world's most unforgiving environment. Perfect for fans of James Rollins, Matthew Reilly, and high-stakes adventure where the truth is buried deeper than anyone imagined-and colder than death itself.

Kansas City Journal Enquirer. "What a delicious adventure-thriller. Its clever, plausible plot gives birth to lots of action and suspense." San Francisco Examiner. "A fast-paced thriller with compelling main characters and incredibly determined foes."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621250490
• ISBN13: 9781621250494
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Cool Gus Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great pace, great detail, makes me want to visit the final continent

I am grateful I found this author and the Riley character. It wasn't easy, but I finally got hold of the full series of books and enjoyed each book I read more than the one before. This book's pace - gripping from its earliest pages - it's detail, character and location added up to an enjoyable read...and may well spur me to tackle the last continent...but only in the "summer" months.

Unique Plot, Good Action

Eternity Base was an excellant action novel, set in the world's harshest and most remot setting: Antarctica. There's a lot of action, and soome unique twists in the plot. The novel is just as good as the author's first novel, Eyes of the Hammer. One thing would have been nice, though: extending the 287-page book to 300+ pages (but I don't pretend that I could write more than 20 pages of garbage so I won't complain). READ IT!

a great read yet with a diet taste

It seems to me, in this book, that the hero, David Riley had become a little weird and remote. Mr. Mayer seems to remove Riley from the center, and tried to make the heroines occupied more pages instead of giving Riley more opportunities to let us keep loving him. I loved what Riley were in all the former D. Riley Books! And would like to give all of them a high 10, but not this one. It was good,but Riley had become a pitiful, self-reject, a bit eccentric, remote, self-denial person and a supporting actor! I have been in a state of trying to contact Mr. Mayer about this Riley's troubled mind. And wish the next Riley in the Z would become the-return-of-the-native hero as before; a reserved, iron-minded, cool, intelligent, yet warm, gentle and considerate person--a self-made,self-enhanced Man,but not the one in the "Eternity Base" as a somewhat absent-minded, negative, most of the time, even not quite a smart person. I have already translated Mr.Mayer's "DRAGON SIM-13" into Chinese and have published it in Taiwan last year. I enjoyed every moment with Riley and Mr. Mayer, and only wish I could translated all of his Riley titled books(not this one)