Cold Burn
A National Parks Thriller
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
Agent Michael Walker returns when multiple deaths at Glacier Bay National Park are just the first steps in a potential global disaster.
National Park Service investigator Michael Walker is battling smugglers stealing priceless artifacts when he’s dispatched to Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, where, in the first stage of a potential global disaster, a team of scientists has gone missing.
Meanwhile, in Florida’s Everglades National Park, FBI special investigator Gina Delgado traces the murder of an environmental science intern back to another U.S. Geological Survey team’s ongoing experiments that are decimating the fragile ecosystem. That is before she’s dispatched to the scene of a sunken U.S. nuclear submarine, the entire crew of which has inexplicably been killed.
The connection between these disparate investigations lies in a deadly prehistoric organism, frozen for thousands of years in the ice until global warming brings it back to life in what could mean the death of all life on Earth. An organism that a rogue billionaire sees as the ultimate fuel source and a Russian strongman views as the ultimate weapon that can shift the global balance of power forever. Against that backdrop, Walker and Delgado find themselves desperately doing battle across multiple fronts against an ancient, unstoppable enemy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this solid sequel to Leave No Trace, Landau—a pseudonym for Jon Land and Jeff Ayers—brings National Park Service investigator Michael Walker and FBI agent Gina Delgado together again to avert worldwide catastrophe. Tech executive Axel Cole is planning the first manned mission to Mars. His hopes depend on a new fuel source called Prometheus, the pursuit of which overlaps with separate investigations undertaken by Walker and Delgado. Walker is working undercover on a cruise ship off Alaska's coast, on the trail of thieves responsible for stealing precious artifacts from the Tlingit tribe. Delgado, meanwhile, is in the Everglades, looking into the murder of an intern working on an environmental project at the behest of the president's chief of staff. Soon, Delgado learns that the intern's killing is connected to the deaths of a cutting-edge Navy submarine's entire crew and an alarming shift in the pattern of vital ocean currents. For backup, she calls Walker, and eventually, both of their inquiries point back to Cole, whose pursuit of Prometheus threatens to bring about global climate collapse. Landau treads familiar ground , but keeps the pages turning without sacrificing plausibility. Michael Crichton fans will enjoy themselves.
