Synopses & Reviews
The most destructive natural disaster in history isn't
natural....THE PLACE
Antarctica. The Ross Ice Shelf. A floating slab of solid ice the size of France, more than 3,000 feet thick.
THE EVENT
On Thanksgiving weekend, six precisely placed nuclear warheads buried 2,000 feet beneath the ice detonate in sequence, shearing the Ross Shelf from the underwater rises that anchor it.
The nuclear shock wave drives the shelf into the Pacific at 500 miles per hour, creating an initial wall of water 1,400 feel high. Unseen, unsuspected, unstoppable, the displacement wave formed by the wall's collapse radiates northward. In thirty-five hours, it will lay waste to Hawaii. In thirty-eight hours, the southeastern regions of Japan will become little more than swampland. And in forty hours, the entire Los Angeles Basin will be flooded to a depth of twenty feet. By then, the death toll will be measured in the millions.
Set against a split-second race to prevent global devastation, and based onthe astounding cutting-edge technologies that will take the U.S. military into the next century, Icefire is the story of Navy SEAL Captain Mitch Webber and oceanographer Cory Rey. Once lovers, now enemies, they're plunged into a maelstrom of international intrigue and betrayal reaching from Beijing to the highest levels of the Pentagon.
Critically acclaimed for their earlier works of speculative fiction and suspense, with Icefire Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens have become an exciting new voice in contemporary thrillers.
Review
Stephen King
The best suspense novel...since The Hunt for Red October.
Review
Stephen King
In Icefire, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens have created a hardwired, totally riveting, dare-you-to-put-it-down story of disaster, heroism, and suspense. There's no need for techno-thriller fans to wait for the next Clancy or Coonts; Icefire is the best suspense novel of its type since The Hunt for Red October.
Review
Richard Marcinko
coauthor of The Rogue Warrior
...a hard-hitting, heart-stopping thriller that pits the U.S. military at its best against man-made, worldwide disaster at its worst. A sharp look at where our future enemies could come from, and the kind of men -- and women -- and technology -- it will take to face them.
Review
The Advocate (LA)
A solid techno-thriller from a seasoned team...top notch nail-biter of a story.