Icebound
Author | : Dean Koontz |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2007-06-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780307414151 |
ISBN-13 | : 0307414159 |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. And cold-blooded murder seems right at home. Conducting a strange and urgent experiment on the Arctic icefield, a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful explosive charges that will detonate at midnight. Before they can withdraw to the safety of their base camp, a shattering tidal wave breaks loose the ice on which they are working. Now they are hopelessly marooned on an iceberg during a violent winter storm. The bombs beneath them are buried irretrievably deep . . . and ticking. And they discover that one of them is an assassin with a mission of his own.