Beyond the Ice Limit

✍ Scribed by Douglas Preston

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 191 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT
That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now...
With these words begin Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth.
Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic Sea and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed.
But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of...