Ice Author:James Follett It took the world time to awake to the danger. First came the reports of a missing top-secret NATO submarine in the waters of the Antarctic, a vessel that theoretically could not sink. Then an ultra-modern English high-speed passenger liner was sunk, the transatlantic telephone cable severed, and a Soviet super-attack sub spotted in ... more »the desolate waters of the South Atlantic, events that brought the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust.
The top brass of Western Intelligence are badly rattled when transatlantic cables are inexplicably and provocatively cut, and Russian and American relations reach freezing-point. Only Glyn Sherwood and Julia Hammond, two scientists working in the Antarctic, can guess the identity of the enemy. It was then that unbelieving governments and teams of scientists awoke to an even greater horror, a gargantuan slice of the glacial continent, a rogue Antarctic iceberg bearing millions of tons of rock on its grasp, which triggers a series of disasters as it drifts inexorably north. Eight thousand miles of cubic ice was moving through the sea, the spearhead of the most monstrously destructive force nature had ever unleashed against humankind...« less