Icefire

[Sonic Glitch]

A book by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, anybody else heard of it/read it?

[Mark]

What's it about???

[Sionnach Glic]

Never heard of it.

[Mikey]

Same here. Is it part of a series, or something like that?

[Sonic Glitch]

Same here. Is it part of a series, or something like that?

It's written as a stand-alone but it has a sequal of sorts taking place a couple of years later.

From the Back Cover:

The most destructive natural disaster in history isn't natural...

The Place: Antarctica. The Ross Ice Shelf. A floating slab of solid ice the size of France, more than three thousand feet thick.

The Event: On Thanksgiving weekend, six precisely located nuclear warheads burried 2,000ft beneat the ice detonate in sequence shearing the Ross Shelf from the underwater rises that anchor it.

The nuclear shockwave(added by me: from a seperate nuclear detonation) drives the shelf into the Pacific at 500mph, creating an initial wall of water 1400ft high. Unseen, unsuspected, unstoppable, the displacement wave formed by the wall's collapse radiates Northward. In thirty-five hourse, it will lay waste to Hawaii. In thirty-eight hourse the southeastern regions of Japan will become little more than swampland. and in forty hours, the entire Los Angeles Basin will be flooded to a depth of twenty feet. By then, the death toll will be mesaured in the millions.
Set against a split-second race against global devastation, and based on the astounding cutting-edge technologies that will thake the US Military into the next centure, ICEFIRE is the story of Navy SEAL Captain Mitch Webber and oceanographer Cory Rey. Once lovers, now enemies, they're plunged into a maelstrom of international intrigue and betrayal reaching from Peking to the highest levels of the Pentagon.
Critically acclaimed for their earlier works of speculative fiction and suspense, with ICEFIRE Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens have become an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.

Copyright: 1998

[Captain Picard's Hair]

I read it, a few years ago. It wasn't bad.