Cold As Ice - Softcover
Abe Stein never trusted his partner, Jacob Weiss. He really didn’t know why, but he just had a bad feeling about the man. Years later Abe’s fears would come true when Jacob implemented his evil plan to steal Abe’s entire diamond collection. Unknown to Jacob, Abe and the security company were aware of Jacob’s planned heist. Only when a near disaster occurs does Abe realize the extent of not only Jacob’s involvement, but also Dave Robertson’s, one of the security company’s men, a retired Navy pilot who steals a fully armed Navy fighter jet. Soon the entire government is looking for the missing fighter jet...and the diamonds, chasing across two continents, only to discover that the diamonds are fakes. Dave is now a wanted man with a case full of worthless stones. Dave vows to get the real diamonds or kill Abe Stein for double-crossing him. Cold As Ice is a fast-paced and twisting suspense that will keep you guessing until the end.
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About the Author:
Charles Sheffield is a mathematician and theoretical physicist by training. His doctoral work was on Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Currently Dr. Sheffield works as chief scientist for the Earth Satellite Corporation, a Washington, D.C.–based firm that specializes in the analysis of data gathered from space.
The author of thirty previous science fiction novels, including Cold as Ice and The Ganymede Club from Tor, Sheffield lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, author Nancy Kress.
From Kirkus Reviews:
The author of thirty previous science fiction novels, including Cold as Ice and The Ganymede Club from Tor, Sheffield lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, author Nancy Kress.
Buzzing, expansive medium-future space drama from the physicist-author (see below). Toward the end of the 21st century, after a space war has devastated Earth, Mars, and the inhabited asteroid belt, development centers on the Galilean satellites of Jupiter. Keen to develop the ice-moon Europa is Cyrus Mobarak, genius inventor of portable fusion power units; opposing him is the reclusive brilliant researcher Hilda Brandt. And caught up in their almost imperceptible power struggle are fusion scientist Camille Hamilton, undersea researcher Jon Perry, and brilliant composer Wilsa Sheer- -all three of whom have extraordinarily augmented abilities. After an accident on the surface of Europa, Camille apparently freezes to death, only to revive without ill effects; Jon and Wilsa, trapped in a submersible in the deep water beneath Europa's icy surface, run out of air, but they revive too. Turns out that all three are survivors of wartime biological experiments aimed at creating super-talented humans--experiments directed by Hilda Brandt. The various plot elements take a while to come together, and there are one or two bothersome holes in the logic thereof. But this is certainly Sheffield's best effort to date. Watch for sequels. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherPublishamerica Inc
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1413722059
- ISBN 13 9781413722055
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages356
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