Synopses & Reviews
Renegade Russians, marauding polar bears, a lone terrorist, and Mother Nature collide with the cantankerous retired professor and sometimes sleuth Thomas Martindale. Signed on as expedition science officer, Martindale trys to stay alive out on the deadly Artic ice long enough to the discover how the melting Polar ice cap will affect our national security. The author, a retired OSU journalism professor, weaves environmental issues into murderous adventure with PNW content. Original.
Synopsis
In his latest adventure, professor and sometime amateur sleuth Thomas Martindale leaves campus to sign on as a science writer for a research expedition to the Arctic for a change of pace from the often mundane world of the university. The work is unique: an attempt to study ice as a tool for national security. Soon after the members of the team board a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker for the journey to their base a remote island in the Beaufort Sea Russian scientists join the group with unpleasant consequences.
The rivalry turns deadly after the icebreaker leaves and people start dying under mysterious circumstances. The arrival of an Arab terrorist and a marauding polar bear complicate life on the small island. An early freeze traps the men and women of the expedition as a massive ice shield closes in. The events oddly parallel a similar (and real) disaster Martindale is writing about, which took place in 1897.
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