Fast Ice
Numa Files #18
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4.4 • 81 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Join the latest thrilling NUMA Files adventure as Kurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet . . .
FROM THE GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLER
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A research ship is adrift off the coast of Antarctica . . .
Weeks earlier, one of the crew messaged NUMA claiming to have made a world-shattering discovery. Followed by silence. Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are dispatched to the icy waters. They find a sinking ship, her crew murdered, the vessel ransacked - and one research scientist missing.
What was discovered? Who wanted it badly enough to kill everyone? And where did they vanish to?
One way or another Kurt's heading for Antarctica to learn the truth. But he won't just be risking sub-zero temperatures, avalanches and blizzards.
For someone is preparing to turn this secret discovery into a weapon of chilling power - unless Kurt can find them first . . .
Praise for Clive Cussler:
'The Adventure King' Sunday Express
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
'Nobody does it better . . . nobody!' Stephen Coonts
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In bestseller Cussler's gripping 18th NUMA Files novel (after 2020's Journey of the Pharaohs, also with Brown), climate expert Cora Emmerson, while doing research in Berlin, comes across references to a 1939 German expedition to Antarctica that discovered a lake heated by geothermal energy containing a strange green algae that seemed to cause water to rapidly freeze. Cora goes to Antarctica, where she collects ice core samples containing the algae. She alerts the National Underwater and Marine Agency, for which she once worked, that she has made a find that has the power to "remake the world." Weeks later, as Cora heads home, a vessel disguised as an iceberg crashes into her ship. Unknown attackers kill the crew and steal Cora's samples. Cora survives to join the subsequent investigation by NUMA's Kurt Austin and sidekick Joe Zavela, which leads them to Ryland Lloyd, an environmentalist who believes climate change actually benefits the planet in the long run. No surprise, Lloyd turns out to have a hidden agenda related to the ice. The suspense builds as the NUMA team races to avert global catastrophe. This is another classic Cussler action thriller.
Customer Reviews
Title says it
Fast paced exciting read - very topical too!!
Fast Ice
Unfortunately this partnership written novel fails to come close to the original Cussler standard of plotting or narrative. Utterly implausible from beginning to end. A big disappointment.