Icebound - Dean Koontz

A frozen wasteland, a group of scientists, a psychopath and a lot of explosives ? could these be a recipe for excitement and tension? THE PLOT A group of scientists are working in the Arctic laying explosives, which will detonate at midnight and break off one section of the icy plateau. Unfortunately they are hit by a subterranean tidal wave, which breaks off the edge of the ice and sets the scientists adrift on an iceberg, together with the explosives, which have started their countdown to detonation. As if this was not enough to give the team something to occupy their minds, they discover that there is a psychopath in their midst, who is ...

I read this book a few years ago when I had more time to read. I decided to re-read it last week and was pleasantly surprised to find it was still as gripping as the first time. Icebound is set on an Arctic iceberg. Eight scientists who have put forward the theory that icebergs could be floated out to sea and then dragged to where fresh water is desperately needed, are there to help prove their theory. Their mission is to free a large iceberg from the icecap and let it float south using the oceans currents. Having just finished placing the last of 60 charges to help separate the iceberg, they find themselves adrift on a larger iceberg, freed from the ...

Icebound is one of Koontz older books, which he has re touched and released to cash in on his current mega bucks writer status. Its still a nice short exciting thriller with thick chunky white sheets and short chapters in the hard back, making for a swift enjoyable read. Its set over twelve hours on the most baron of icy landscapes at the pole, and such is its pace that you could easily read the 380 pages in that period. A group of scientists from various disciplines in environmental and the Eco fields are gathered in this unforesaken land to blast away a chunk of ice, to tow off to warmer climes. As they return from a temporary camp where they ...