Beyond the Ice Limit: A Gideon Crew Novel (Gideon Crew Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478909110 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Preston and Child are co-authors of the Agent Pendergast series as well as the Gideon Crew series. Lincoln Child has published six novels of his own, including the bestseller The Forgotten Room. Their novels Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen in an NPR poll as two of the hundred greatest thrillers ever written. Preston's acclaimed nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is being made int
Six years later, Crew, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, agrees to accompany a second mission with the objective of destroying the thing with a nuke. Previously, eccentric billionaire Palmer Lloyd learned that the largest meteorite ever known had been found on an uninhabited island at the very tip of South America. The bestselling authors maintain suspense throughout, and they throw in some original ideas that offset some familiar action tropes. Most of the expedition members perished, and the meteorite sank to the ocean floor. Agent: Eric Simonoff, WME. From Publishers Weekly Preston and Child's exciting fourth Gideon Crew novel (after 2014's The Lost Island) satisfactorily resolves the cliffhanger with which they ended their 2000 thriller, T
Beyond the Ice Limit -- Preston and Child ably channel H.P. Lovecraft L. D. Jentzer Preston and Child have ably adapted H.P. Lovecraft's concept of cosmic outsideness to a modern science fiction/horror story. The style of writing, of course, is nothing like Lovecraft's, but the concepts pay homage to the Cthulhu Mythos, and especially, "The . "Gave Me Nightmares!" according to AmazonAddict. I don't write reviews often and I really should. I depend on the Amazon book reviews to decide what I'm going to read next, so I should contribute more. This book was unputdownable for me. I couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next. I saw some . Now We Know What Happened. jmodeldriver I've been reading Lincoln / Child books for about 10 years now and immediately fell in love with the Pendergast books like most of their readers. I was a fan of Sherlock Holmes stories and these were definitely a spiritual successor to Doyle. Those books bega
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. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon's expertise with nuclear weapons. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed.But this was not all. BEYOND THE ICE LIMITThat thing is growing again. We must destroy it. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space.Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface-and it is growing. The time to act is nowWith these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. But as Gideon