Publisher Description
Leader of the NUMA Special Assignments team, Kurt Austin must work with a former KGB spy to save the United States from a lunatic with a generations-spanning grudge in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
Kurt Austin is preparing for an interview while aboard a research vessel in the Black Sea. But his television spot suddenly becomes a rescue mission when the waiting film crew is attacked on a nearby island. With little information on the attackers, and no clue to their true agenda, Austin is forced to turn to an unlikely source: his old KGB Cold War adversary Vladimir Petrov. According to Petrov, the island is actually an old submarine base that’s been commandeered by clever mobster-turned-billionaire-businessman Mikhail Razov. Razov is certain he descends from the great Romanov family and he’s out to reclaim his rightful position as czar of Russia. With a powerful resource called “fire ice”, discovered by his mining company, Razov may just have the ammunition he needs to take over the modern world. To stop him, Austin will have to work with Petrov. And he’ll have to find out fast how much trust he can offer an old nemesis in this thrilling adventure that “goes down like a chilled Stolichnaya martini.” (Kirkus Reviews)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This newest addition to the Kurt Austin series (after Blue Gold) has the men from NUMA (Native Underwater & Marine Agency) team up with former KGB spies to face down a Russian mobster with czarist aspirations and a zealot's hatred for the "corruption and materialism" of the Western lifestyle. The NUMA research vessel Argo is in the Black Sea for a PR jaunt when Austin spots the overdue TV crew being chased down an island beach by mounted Cossacks. Austin learns from his old KGB Cold War adversary Vladimir Petrov that the island is a mothballed submarine base commandeered by paranoid mobster Mikhail Razov (employer of the Cossacks), a billionaire who built Ataman Industries by taking over utilities and mines sold by the state. Razov claims descent from the Romanovs and is plotting to assume the throne. Meanwhile, when a U.S. Navy sub goes missing and a mysterious tidal wave swamps a Maine coastal town, the NUMA team figures out that Ataman is mining "fire ice" unstable and explosive solid methane in the high-pressure deep-sea bottom. Austin and his oceanographic team join forces with Petrov and set out to foil Razov's plot. Cussler is in top form here, working in a role for Old Ironsides and Czar Nicholas II's crown while throwing in enough derring-do and eco-lore to leave his fans breathless. Coauthor Kemprecos (Blue Gold, with Cussler) adds his oceanographic expertise to the mix. 400,000 first printing; $400,000 ad/promo; author tour; simultaneous release of Putnam Berkley Audio editions on tape and CD.
Customer Reviews
Fire and Ice
It was a good book and I loved to read and listen to the story of the first time we met and it was a really good book butters and I think it’s a great way to get into the culture and the story of the second one is really interesting about how people treat people who have different personalities and they have different opinions on what to say to communicate with people that have gone through the same situation and it will really help you JoAnne adomavici and you know that I had to change my perspective of how I felt in my own life and I was told that you have been in contact with Jill and that you have a lot more friends until they were bullying JoAnne and the Joke is that you know what to do and say that you’re going out with your friend Joseph Adomavicia and you have been doing greatly more than what I have always said you were the best person that I had been doing a lot more better versus you have written so many saying on whisper and that was true and you have done so many good things and the prayers are so true it was really great to write it out and then let it go and because you have what it takes to be a honest and person that takes life seriously and when others stand in your path then you have to believe in yourself and believe that what I was saying is true and you have told my heart the truth and that is wasn’t true you didn’t kill anybody and that is so true cause you were not at apple rehab and you knew exactly what happen and how it was true that they didn’t give him any water and that is when he seen the way to get something to drink water he went down to the floor and that is was the truth and then he went to the hospital and he was so happy to hear from JoAnne that he listened to the doctors at the hospital and then he said that he had to go to heaven and that is when his son said he was in charge of his father health and that issue was not true cause he didn’t want to know anything he didn’t even realize that he had done it and he said he didn’t even care about anybody and that he only wanted to talk to JoAnne adomavicia and he did it and then was told that he died and durning that time he had taken out a insurance policy for JoannemariehinmanAdomaviciajr and that was the reason why she was his father soul care taker and she did know what they had done and they took all of his own money and his business and everything and then they were going to take out money and that they can’t cause joAnne changed the money and he didn’t want anything of his fathers stuff or his own daughter stuff so that was what he said through it a way and then he had told joAnne to sign his name in front of the same person that has the other copy and that the cops were called and they told him to stay away from JoAnne and what ever happened in the hospital because I couldn’t even go to the hospital because of coronavirus so his son was there and his wife and his son mother and that was when they had been told that he couldn’t visit his father cause he was not vaccinated and that was when he died and they said that the virus spread through out of his lungs and liver and that he died from Covid and so then they didn’t even pay for his own funeral and that he tried to give him blood and he was told that his father was not his father that died it was the father of the first man that was in his mother house and that was the truth and he was being tested and they found out it was true and that he can’t get anything from his own father is the only one who knew the truth and that was all the money and it was taken to his wife’s church and then JoAnne had to sue the church for fraud cause he took a lot of money from other people
Fire Ice
Great read!
Fast and exciting-pure Cussler
If you like action, adventure, intrigue and swashbuckling heroes taking on the villains in style, then you are going to love this novel!