The Ice
β Scribed by Louis Charbonneau
- Publisher
- Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The world's most hostile environment just became even deadlier...
Brutal, unforgiving, and breathtaking--for American biologist Kathy McNeely, much of Antarctica's lure lies in its dangerous beauty. Part of an international research team sent to study the long-term effects of an oil spill on the ecology, Kathy's focus is on the penguin population. As she uncovers a mysterious new threat to the birds, a sudden blizzard drives more than snow to her team's remote field camp.
Archaeologist-turned-adventurer Brian Hurley isn't the kind of man to stay in one place very long. But the fierce whiteout conditions force him to postpone training for his record-breaking sledge run to the South Pole. He's not the only one stranded at the scientists' camp--a pair of cagey energy contractors and a dogged L.A. journalist also wait for the severe weather to pass.
As the storm rages on, a dangerous and potentially deadly spate of accidents plagues the Ice. Missing supplies,...
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