Icefire

by Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens

Book Overview

Six nuclear warheads buried beneath an Antarctic ice shelf, when detonated, will cause a 400mph tidal wave that will annihilate the entire Pacific Rim. This is a plan of calculated evil and when it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671014021
• ISBN13: 9780671014025
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

It made me a convert

I always thought my dad was crazy for reading all those Tom Clancy novels. Icefire turned my whole perception of techno thrillers around. As a reader who is just as interested in characters as plot lines, I found this book engaging from the get go. I also read to learn, and quite enjoyed delving into military jargon, solitons vs. tsunami, and my great love of the SR-71 Blackbird was quite satisfied with that amazing aircraft's role in the action. The Nevada Rain, of course, was just plain cool. The authors are also not afraid to kill people which I find painful and realistic. Death is the second inevitablity after taxes and it is a refreshing change from gold-plated characters who sometimes, maybe, get a hangnail or the poor "red-shirts" (the nameless guys in Star Trek who always bought it and were eulogized by a mournful Bones in some variation of 'He's dead, Jim.') The reader is energized and drawn into the drama because of this no nonsense, stark addition of death, no longer just irritated with those baddies but just aching to get the part where they get a taste of their own medicine. I have not heard about a film, but can't wait to see it should it become a reality. A great read, even if you don't much care for the genre because it incorporates so much more. It is so satisfying when you have a History Channel husband who starts with amazement at hearing CincPac roll glibly off your tongue.

What a RUSH!!

I gotta hand it to Judith & Garfield...having read several of their Star Trek novels (far and away the best out there, too) I was taken by surprise when I noticed a techno-thriller with their name on it. I checked the wallet, found enough and got me a copy and took it home...fast forward a few days...!!!WOW!!! This book can rival just about any techno-thriller out there! If I were to have ANY criticism at all, it would be that at times the explanation of the tidal force unleashed at the bottom of the world was a bit over my head. Now I'm by no means a genius, but it certainly SOUNDED plausible. Fun and very fast paced, this locomotion in print is a MUST READ for any who enjoys a good action/adventure novel. By the way, the comparisons to Clancy and Cussler are TOTALLY deserved.

Gripping

This book is one of the few that I just could not put down. The story is interwoven with such high-tech equipment and so believable that once you are in you can't let go. The military equipment mentioned in the book is on the edge of fiction and fact. A must read for anybody who is into a militaristic fiction plot that seems based on quite alot of fact.

Best book I ever read!

Wonderful book...I read it in less than 3 days; I could not put it down. There was never a point where it slowed down or became boring. Every part and detail are crucial to the story and cannot be missed. For those who like to read the last page of a novel to see how it ends, you won't learn a thing. I only hope that more and more people have the opportunity to read Icefire.

Riviting! Supurb near future adventure!

I thouroughly enjoyed this exciting novel. If you like your drama mixed in with a little science fiction this is for you!