Fire and ice

By Ray Kytle

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679505342
• ISBN13: 9780679505341
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: D. McKay Co
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

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For Dave Powers, the signs are both ominous and unmistakable. The Arab embargo has cut off the flow of oil from the Middle East, the Alaskan pipe line and the nuclear systems that were supposed to provide an alternative source of power are failing. Time has almost run out; his calculated decision to hole up in an isolated mountain cabin with his most trusted friends and their families, and wait out the crisis. To Dave's wife, his foreboding seems pessimistic. Her main concern is the people she loves, and to preserve them she will exchange civilization as she has always known it for hardship, deprivation, and ...most essentially...survival. She can sacrifice herself, she thinks, but she can never...even in self-preservation...kill another human being. so she believed in the beginning...until the band of marauders from the city appeared...What happens when the law of the land turns into the law of the jungle, when "practical" considerations are irrevocably transmuted into a death sentence for millions, and a group of ordinary people meet not one but two devastating world crises..both terrifyingly possible; that is the essence of this powerful novel.