Ice Islands
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
Major Rake Ozenna faces dangerous choices and deadly consequences in this rip-roaring political thriller that takes you from the ice islands of Finland to the bustling streets of Tokyo via Russia and the White House . . . Buckle up, this is a thrilling ride!
Major Rake Ozenna’s mission is simple: gain access to the Kato family – Japan’s most dangerous crime empire – and stop the threat to America. But when the secret son of the Russian leader is executed and Rake’s target, Sara Kato, is implicated in the murder, a political crisis between Russia, Japan and the US is set in motion.
It's a race to protect Sara and earn her trust whilst escaping the inhospitable terrain of the icy Aland island. Meanwhile, Russia wants revenge for the murder, a catastrophic move when it is revealed Japan have been stockpiling nuclear weapons.
As Rake learns the true extent of their deadly plans, he must draw on every ounce of his training to succeed. Because if he fails, it won’t just be his life that will be lost . . . the consequences will be global!
Ice Islands is the third Rake Ozenna thriller and will leave readers breathless . . . and eagerly anticipating the next heart-racing adventure!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hawksley's implausible fourth thriller featuring Alaska native Rake Ozenna (after 2021's Man on Fire) finds Rake, who works for a private security company specializing in investigating "transnational crime networks," and his boss, Harry Lucas, closing in on Michio Kato, who has inherited the helm of a yakuza group. Rake may have found a way to get inside the organization through Michio's sister, Sara, an advocate for Indigenous people, who sends Rake a frantic SOS. Flashback to a peace conference attended by Sara on Finland's Åland Islands. That conclave is disrupted when someone slits the throat of a participant, who turns out to be the illegitimate son of Sergey Grizlov, the Russian president. To avert WWIII, Harry reaches out to his ex-wife, Grizlov's former lover, to persuade Grizlov that the U.S. wasn't behind the murder, even as Rake works to save Sara's life. Awkward prose ("To escape a fabricated rape wrap, an orphan kid from Little Diomede was flying in to carve the mammoth tusk stored in his apartment for the Smithsonian Museum") doesn't help the contrived plot. Fans of intelligent action yarns should look elsewhere.
