Advantages: Good thriller that's worth a read Disadvantages: Not his usual horror story
the vicinity on a secret spying mission and this is dispatched to try and rescue the scientists and this is the gripping part of the book and i'm not going to spoil it for you, you'll have to go and get the book and read it yourself................!!!!!!!!
'Icebound' is a revised version of DeanKoontz earlier novel called 'Prision of Ice' which was published under the pseudonym David Axton.
The book is well worth a read and is published by Headline book Publishing and costs £6.99 in paperback. ISBN 0 7472 4740 4 if anyone is interested in the ISBN number.
Happy reading!! ...
I read this book a few years ago when I had more time to read. I decided to re-read it last week and was pleasantly surprised to find it was still as gripping as the first time.
Icebound is set on an Arctic iceberg. Eight scientists who have put forward the theory that icebergs could be floated out to sea and then dragged to where fresh water is desperately needed, are there to help prove their theory. Their mission is to free a large iceberg from the icecap and let it float south using the oceans currents.
Having just finished placing the last of 60 charges to help separate the iceberg, they find themselves adrift on a larger iceberg, freed from the main icecap by underwater tremors.
Now with only 12 hours to go before the charges go off they have no way of getting to safety before their berg is blown apart. To make matters ...
Advantages: fast paced, great read, imaginative, interesting characters and plot Disadvantages: it's over too quick!
This is a fantastic read, one of my favourite DeanKoontz books and possibly even one of my favourite thriller books of all time.
An ordinary guy, Mitch Rafferty, gets a call from his wife whilst he is at work, she has been abducted and her kidnappers demand a two million dollar ransom for her safe return, but of course Mitch does not have that kind of money, however the kidnappers know a place where he can get it. Through desperation of trying to get his loved one back Mitch is lead on an unforgettable journey.
This novel is so fast paced that you can't stop yourself from read more and more, Mitch's character is so endearing and you instantly feel sympathy for him, allowing you to relate better to this book than to many other thrillers. Although a slightly clichéd storyline of ordinary guy versus pschopathic villain, Koontz does it ...
