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was a nonstop action novel, Unpredictable. Didn't turn out the way I thought it would, I thought the story was going to be about an unknown species coming to wreak havoc upon mankind via the Antarctica, Instead, it is a story about survival, Survival between the good guys and the bad guys, Which will win at the end, You may be surprised. Great book, and easy to read, Looking forward to reading more by this author, I was pretty hopeful, but the book mostly was depressing and entirely a chase, The characters were obnoxiously stubborn with the antagonist reminding me of Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter, I also didn't get a good payoff of satisfaction, If you like cat and mouse chases then this is for you, This really is an amazing book! Such an adventure thriller that sucks you in and becomes a nonstop read, I was so into this book for one key reason: the antagonist, The bad guy in this book is a lovetohate type of bad guy, which to me, makes for the very best stories, Very realistic thriller that is well done and fast paced, Add an ax wielding psycho on a high powered sled and you've got some fun good vs, evil here. I can't imagine how Dickinson wrote such a detailed description of the problems and perils of living for months on a solid continent sized piece of ice! Excellent details and character development.
It's a page turner! You can never be sure which people will survive, I don't like cold, but this was a cool read during the high temps of the summer of, Book of the Month for me! The crew on the Capricorn scientific base in Antarctica are called on to rescue a pair of explorers who have failed in their attempt to cross the continent at its widest point.
After a hairraising rescue mission the explorers plus a reporter who survived a rescueplane crash have to spend the dark winter months at Capricorn until another plane can come into land.
Whilst two of the three are grateful for the food, warmth and medical treatment, the other one has murder on his mind and such selfish intentions he jeopardises the lives of the whole base.


The author knows his Antarctica, fascinating details that make you feel you are there, or, more to the point, glad you aren't, Each page of the developing story makes you feel increasing anger towards the villain and heartbreaking sympathy for the rest of the team, A wonderful rollercoaster of a read that had me reaching for the book to read a few more pages at every opportunity, Lauren Burgess is fulfilling the dream of a lifetime running Capricorn Base, a scientific research station in the Antarctic interior, Three hundred miles away, an expedition consisting of famous explorer Julian Fitzgerald and his companion, Carl Norland, has run into trouble, The two men would have been the first to cross Antarctica on foot at its widest point if they hadnt run out of supplies and begun starving to deathmiles from the goal.
The rescue plane they summon crashes, so Lauren and one of her four teammates, Sean, ride to the rescue, taking the two explorers and Richard, a journalist who survived the crash, back to Capricorn to wait out the winter.
It is soon apparent that Julian Fitzgerald is not the hero the media has made him out to be rather he is dangerously reckless with resources and lives, and Lauren and Sean believe he kept food supplies to himself while leaving Carl and Richard to starve while awaiting rescue.
When he announces his plans to finish his trek, demanding a ride back to the crash site the resume his journey, Lauren refuses, and his behavior really gets out of control.
Suffice it to say, the team at Capricorn Base finds themselves on the run with almost no resources, in a race to find rescue in the most inhospitable place on earth.


While the story is intriguing and compelling, there were a few minor weak points, Julian Fitzgerald vacillates between being paranoid and just a spoiled brat in a way that lacks consistency, Also, while I liked the outcome, the ending left me feeling cheated, We had been with these characters through an entire Antarctic winter, suffered every step with them on their arduous journey, felt all their hunger and pain, and in the end, though we know their fate, they fade into the background instead of having the book show us their triumph.
The same number of pages in the postscript that focused elsewhere would have been better spent with our team of six hardy heroes, and delivering comeuppance to the villain, That was an event I DESERVED to see after all I vicariously went through at his expense, but it didnt happen,

While it is a black mark against it, the ending does not ruin the book because I did like the outcome, and overall it was very well written.
Though it contained the clichéd scene of the good guy being too good to finish the villain when she had the chance, thereby needlessly further endangering her team before belatedly growing the spine needed to try to fix things when it was already too late, it was still nonetheless a very good Antarctic thriller.
I dont think Ive ever read a book with better descriptions of that continent and its frozen landscape, The heroes were also a likeable lot, and the villain deliciously detestable, as he should be in a good adventure tale, In all, Black Ice is a satisfying pageturner,
What a great book even though he clearly chracterizes the dangers of Antartica, it still made me want to visit the Beagle Channel amp also glide across the Ice under the sun and feel the artic wind on my face and cross crevasses on a snowmobile.
I really hope i get to visit Antartica one day! This is a must read if you enjoy adventures in the Artic! This had to be one of the better books of this genre that I have read in some time.
This was unexpectedly excellent, I didn't really have any expectations going in but whew, what a ride, It begins with an Antarctic expedition in disarray with one of a pair of explorers wishing to throw in the towel and the other wanting to push on even though they're out of food.


After a botched air rescue results in the aircraft crashing and another person trapped on the ice a scientific basemiles away is contacted and coaxed into a risky rescue mission.
Whilst the rescue mission is ultimately successful it turns out that one of these explorers is a bit of a delusional sociopath with little to no regard for anyone but himself.


As the story progresses his actions puts everyone at risk resulting in destruction of the scientific base and a race back acrossmiles of unforgiving Antarctic ice to the rescue beacon previously used to call in the ill fated air rescue.


It's quite an action packed survival adventure and the above doesn't even give a true indication of how much of a douchebag the explorer in question is, The guy seems to be living in a delusional world of his own, caring for nothing but promoting his own exploits,

Overall, an excellent page turning thriller, I loved this book, anyone know when it will be available for the Kindle in the UK Thriller with a bit of edge Wow, this book was a wild ride! The action is really nonstop, and it was obviously written by someone who really knows his stuff about Antarctica.
An edge of realism is something you rarely see in thrillers,.This was more of a survival book than an adventure book, which I wasn't really expecting, I have read at least two other fiction books about things buried in the polar ice, but this was much different, It just wasn't quite as exciting as I thought it would be, but I did learn a lot about the conditions of the Antarctic, I did read it almost entirely in one sitting though, so it had that going for it,

The writing seemed a bit, . amateurish at times. Not a lot of character development either, Neither of those would have been a big deal if the plot picked up a bit more,

I guess I would recommended it for fans of survival/expedition accounts, who want to read something fictional for a change, PROTAGONIST: Lauren Burgess, glacial biologist
SETTING: Antarctica
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WHY: Lauren Burgess, glacial biologist, has built a base in Antarctica staffed withothers who are helping her to drill to an underground lake, She expects to find the existence of previously undiscovered species in its water, The team is summoned to rescueexplorers and a reporter who are stranded aboutmiles away after a rescue plane failed in its mission, After a strenuous trip, they bring the men back to camp where they are about to lock down formonths of permanent night approaching, A famed UK explorer, Julian Fitzgerald, sabotages them at every turn, Then the unthinkable happens and they must return to the rescue site to obtain the emergency signal, It's a mind boggling journey, almost beyond human limits, In addition to the incredible cold, they have no food and several of them are not doing well, The conclusion disappointed as it took its focus off of the team, Overall, this was a remarkable piece of work, I can't imagine how Dickinson did the required research to document the conditions so well,
Top class novel. I've read it twice. Kept you interested and the ending was neat and tidy, Another arctic chiller/thriller. This book really was a great tale of survival in some of the most damn brutal conditions a human has ever encountered, When fire destroys a small research station the team leader must pull out all the stops to keep her team alive, However there is a lot more to the story, Shall we say several plot complications that I really don't want to

spoil, I highly recommend this book for anyone looking for a thrilling and chilling good read, Author really needs to do some basic research into things he clearly has no idea about ie benchpressingkg forminutes Clueless and not leave huge plot holes and create dumb characters that Dan Brown would have been proud to create.
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