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- Fire Ice -
by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos
G.P.
Putman's Sons, NY 2002
434 PP
ISBN# 0-399-14872-8
Number Line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
From the dust jacket: "Critics and fans everywhere
have welcomed the enormously entertaining new series
from Clive Cussler: the adventures of Kurt Austin,
taken from the NUMA® Files. It's "a jolt
of energy," praises The Denver Post. "As
always, Cussler twists fact and fiction into a rope
of tension that will leave you dangling until the
last page," says the Tulsa World.
In Serpent and Blue Gold, Cussler introduced a hero
for the new millennium in Kurt Austin, the leader
of NUMA's Special Assignments Team. In previous encounters,
Austin and his colleague Joe Zavala have battled eco-extortionists
and mad empire builders - but they have never faced
a menace like the one before them now.
In the heart of the old Soviet Union, a mining tycoon
has proclaimed himself czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov
ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is
determined to overthrow the already shaky Russian
government - and U.S. opposition doesn't bother him
one bit. A little crisis of their own should distract
the Americans for a while, and he knows just the thing.
All along the eastern seaboard lie pockets of methane
hydrate, a notoriously unstable compound known as
"fire ice." What if somebody should set
them off, say, outside a major city? Think of the
explosions. Think of the earth tremors. Think of the
tidal waves
Filled with all the hair-raising action and endless
imagination that are Cussler's hallmarks. Fire ice
is a dazzling thriller from the grand master of adventure
fiction."
Clive
Cussler and Paul Kemprecos team up again for another
adventure from the NUMA files.
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