Icefire - Hardcover

Reeves-Stevens, Judith; Reeves-Stevens, Garfield

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671014021 ISBN 13: 9780671014025

Publisher: Atria, 1998

Synopsis

Once lovers, now enemies, Navy SEAL Captain Mitch Webber and oceanographer Cory Rey must join forces to stop a cabal of Chinese officials from devastating the Pacific Rim nations using nuclear weapons to create gigantic tidal waves.

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About the Author

Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens are film and television scriptwriters, who together and on their own are authors of twelve novels, among them three New York Times bestsellers, including the award-winning Dark Matter, and the notorious novel of alien abduction, Nighteyes. In 1997, they traveled to Antarctica, on assignment for the Microsoft Network's Mungo Park online adventure-travel magazine, to conduct research for Icefire. The Reeves-Stevenses live in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Absorbing disaster novel that offers everything but asteroid impact and superblooming viruses, by the Canadian authors of Nighteyes (1989) andthe publisher tells us--William Shatners Star Trek novels (sorry, Bill). As in earlier Reeves-Stevens fiction, Clancyitis causes the characters to petrify under hardware description that amplifies oscillations until seismic fault lines fissure with ambient stress the solid-strata prose, while paragraphs burst like rock assaulted by shock-waves of subsonic horror. In other words, when some Chinese army generals decide to overthrow the current government and revert to even more hardline ways, they choose to plant a half-dozen nuclear bombs under the Antarctic permafrostand then explode them to raise a gigantic wave that will roll up the Pacific at 500 miles an hour, knocking out New Zealand, Hawaii, Japan, and the American West Coast (as well as other places), while during the global turmoil, the generals take over China. Among those who might save some of the world in this scenario are Navy SEAL Captain Mitch Weber and his former lover, oceanographer Corry Rey--except that theyre now at each other's throats (a plot device similar to James Camerons in Abyss, which featured snarling ex-marrieds battling several gigantic tsunamis). The authors have a ripping good time measuring the hydraulics of ocean water being sucked up into the monstrous wave, the cyclonic, tree-popping wind, extraordinary airborne debris, and Hawaii dissolving into one large volcanic soup, while the wave also scoops up oilfields that sparks set afire. . . turning the San Diegobound wave into ICEFIRE! Can it be stopped? Weber and Rey come up with an idea for dropping the ocean floor, but various world intrigues work against them. The Reeves-Stevenses feel duty-bound to present every thrilling ergometric fraction of their maelstrom--and that's okay for folks who can hack such projectile detail. Meanwhile, the publisher, arming its publicity missiles, says the movie is due in 1998 or 1999, with its basic plastic humans fighting a gale-force soundtrack. (First printing of 75,000; author tour) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

The famed Star Trek novelists conjure up a huge tidal wave that results when the Chinese melt the Antarctic ice cap in a bid to control the world.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atria
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671014021
• ISBN 13: 9780671014025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496