| Fire Ice |
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| Format: Harcover, 384 pp Publisher: Penguin USA Publish Date: June 3, 2002 Price: $26.95 |
| In Serpent, Clive Cussler introduced a hero for the new millennium in Kurt Austin, the leader of NUMA's Special Assignment team. In previos encounters, Austin and his colleague Joe Zavala have battled eco-extortionists and mad empire builders--but they have never faced a menace like the one before them now. In the heart of the old Soviet Union, a mining tycoon has proclaimed himself czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overflow the already shaky Russian government--and U.S. opposition doesn't bother him one bit. A little crisis of their own should distract the Americans for a while, and he knows just the thing.... Filled with all the hair-raising action and endless imagination that are Cussler's hallmarks. Fire Ice is a dazzling thriller for the grandmaster of adventure fiction. |