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Icebound - Dean Koontz |
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26/05/01 (176 review reads) |
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Advantages: fast paced, well written
Disadvantages: none
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 main icecap by underwater tremors.
Now with only 12 hours to go before the charges go off they have no way of getting to safety before their berg is blown apart. To make matters worse the worst storm of the decade has hit and any thought of air or sea rescue is impossible. Can things get any worse? - the answer to that is yes, becasue someone on the team is a murderer!
However, monitoring all this activity is a Russian submarine. Will the Russian captain decide to help these capitalist scientists? If he does will he be able to help before the midnight deadline?
The book is an easy read with non of the sometimes over technical details found in a Tom Clancy novel. Koontz admits that he was trying to emulate the books of Alistair MacLean - and I think he has done quite well. Not your usual Koontz novel - the characters are shallow and the action is fast paced - but well worth a read.
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KingHerrod - 26/05/01 Not a Konntz fan myself, but a good story synopsis. |
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