The Ice Limit |
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Product Description
The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It is taking them.
Amazon.com Review
Billionaire Palmer Lloyd is accustomed to getting what he wants--and what he wants for his new museum is the largest meteorite on earth. Unfortunately for Lloyd, it's buried on an inhospitable Chilean island just north of the Ice Limit in the most brutal, unforgiving seas in the world. Fortunately for Lloyd, he knows people--people like Eli Glinn, the hyper-focused president of Effective Engineering Solutions, Inc.; Glinn's nonconformist, genius of a mathematician, Rachel Amira; and the uncannily able construction engineer, Manuel Garza. Lloyd's also tapped the brilliant but disgraced meteorite hunter, Sam McFarlane, and the exceptional supertanker captain, Sally Britton, whose career was unshipped by intemperance and a reef. Of course, such a team has a hefty price tag: Lloyd's broad features narrowed. "And that is... " "One hundred and fifty million dollars. Including chartering the transport vessel. FOB the Lloyd Museum." Lloyd's face went pale. "My God. One hundred and fifty million... " His chin sank onto his hands. "For a ten-thousand-ton rock. That's... " "Seven dollars and fifty cents a pound," said Glinn. EES's plan is to obtain mining rights to the island, secure the allegiance of various Chilean functionaries via blinding sums of money, disguise a state-of- the-art supertanker as a decrepit ore rig, mine the rock, slip it into the ship, and zip back to New York to thunderous notoriety. Unforeseen, however, are a rogue Chilean naval captain, seas to make Sebastian Junger boot, and a blood-red meteorite of undetermined pedigree and a habit of discharging billions of volts of electricity for no apparent reason. Like Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's earlier collaborations (Relic, Thunderhead, and others), The Ice Limit tools along swiftly, blending nicely drawn characters (excepting, regrettably, the book's true protagonist, the meteorite), a reasonably exciting narrative, and enough graspable science and plausible-seeming theories to bring readers happily up to speed and keep them climax-bound. Not the authors' best effort, certainly, but a fine diversion nonetheless. --Michael Hudson
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Customer Reviews:
• Great ... Until The Last Twenty Pages
21 October, 2009
This book teases the reader with allusions to legends of horrific ice monsters feasting on unwitting sailors, but quickly resolves into an extremely interesting novel of the engineering feats required to find, excavate, and transport a meteor of immense mass and unknown dangers.
The characters are generally interesting and mostly likable, with an interesting mix of quirks and strengths. The plot seems largely believable, or at least sufficiently entertaining to allow willing suspension of disbelief (with one glaring exception, noted below.)
Unfortunately, all of this begins to unravel during the book's final act. After watching a main character carefully analyze, plan, and prepare for every contingency, we are suddenly asked to believe he could not guess the motives of the key antagonist (motives that are all-too-clear to the reader), opening himself and his team to terrible dangers. To make matters worse, he apparently enjoys making mistakes (or is perhaps making up for a lifetime of NOT making mistakes), since he begins channelling Bob Denver's Gilligan for the remaining dozen pages causing problem after problem, dragging other characters in after him, until the final moments of the book. I think the worst moment consists of a strange reference to the "2001:A Space Odyssey" ending that is too short to add much meaning to the story, but too long to have been accidentally left in the book by careless editing.
The plot device of the all-knowing hero who becomes a befuddled, bumbling fool to keep the plot moving is endlessly frustrating, and degrades the rest of this otherwise excellent story.
I'm not totally sorry I read it, but I do feel a bit let down by the closing moments of the story.
Of course, the last few sentences *almost* make up for it.
But not quite.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Hotsprings
27 November, 2009
I Have not been let down by any one of thier BOOKs, and have turned many friend on tp them, Great
- Amazon Customer Review
• Loved It!
01 December, 2009
If you like Dan Brown? you are gonna love Doug Preston! His characters are so riveting and I just love his sense of style and his way of leading you around by the nose.. and keeping your nose buried in the books!
Love him!~
- Amazon Customer Review
• None
15 December, 2009
I bought the book for my wife because she ask me to. She does a lot of reading
- Amazon Customer Review
• The Ice Limit
27 February, 2010
While not falling into the category of "you really must read this book", there was plenty of action and suspense to hold you attention; the story line was Ok but not great; enough twists that it wasn't always predictable. A good quick entertaining read. Great for filling up a few eventless evenings.
- Amazon Customer Review
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