Ice Hunt by James Rollins

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Buried deep in the earth's polar ice cap -- carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States -- is a secret place, the site of a remarkable abandoned experiment that could have frightening ramifications for the planet. The brain trust of the former Soviet Union who created the seventy-year-old Ice Station Grendel would like it simply to melt from human memory. But that becomes impossible when an American undersea research vessel, the Polar Sentinel, inadvertently pulls too close to the hollowed-out iceberg ... and one of the crew sees something alive inside. Something that never should have survived.

It is a discovery that sends shock waves through the intelligence communities of two powerful nations, as American and Russian scientists, soldiers, and unsuspecting civilians are pulled into Grendel's lethal vortex of secrets, violence, and betrayal. To preserve the silence -- to prevent others from uncovering the terrible mysteries locked behind submerged walls of ice and steel -- no measures will be too extreme. For within the station, experiments have blurred the line between life and death. It was a place never meant to be found.

One man already knows too much: Matthew Pike, a former American Special Forces operative, living in seclusion in Alaska on the edge of the Arctic Circle. On the run after rescuing the survivor of a plane crash no one was meant to observe, Pike is relentlessly drawn into the eye of the gathering storm -- even as a Russian nuclear attack submarine draws silently nearer to the men and women on the Polar Sentinel. The covert battle over Grendel is spinning out of control, and the future of all human life on Earth will be altered -- or destroyed -- once its nightmarish truths are revealed.

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First Edition

Hardcover

Jul-2003

William Morrow

ISBN: 0060521562

ISBN13: 9780060521561

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Audio Cassette

Aug-2003

ISBN: 0792729692

ISBN13: 9780792729693

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Audio CD

Aug-2003

ISBN: 0792729706

ISBN13: 9780792729709

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Paperback

Jul-2004

Avon

ISBN: 0060521600

ISBN13: 9780060521608

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May-2010

HarperCollins

ISBN: 0061965847

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Jul-2003 (hardcover)

Jul-2004 (paperback)

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Mystery/Suspense

Thriller

time period

Contemporary

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Elizabeth Bevarly

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