Ice Hunt
by James Rollins
This fast-paced, action-packed thriller is set in the Arctic, where a long-abandoned Soviet research station is discovered buried in ice. Two nations are racing to be the first to uncover its secrets—one to destroy them and the other to build upon the progress of its late lead researcher. But danger lurks in the hidden ice tunnels and frigid seas: creatures that threaten not only the lives of the researchers but everything they thought they knew about cetaceans.
This book's got it all: ice stations, blizzards, monsters, Russians, nukes, spooks, black ops, even a little romance. The action often moved so quickly and became so intense that my meal got cold because I couldn't put the book down. As I watched every course of action fail, every attempt to escape being foiled, I found myself wishing the good guys could just catch a break. But who were the good guys?
It's obvious that the author meticulously researched his subject. The detailed descriptions of the ice stations made me feel as though I were there—and I didn't want to be there! By the time I emerged from the ice tunnels, blizzards, ice ridges, and inescapable polar winds Rollins created in his novel, I felt I'd never be warm again!
I especially enjoyed the author's notes at the end of the book, in which he reveals what was fact, what was fiction, and what was created from elements of both.
