
Natalie M. (
HBNole) wrote on 9/29/2006...
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Ugh. I couldn't get past page 17. The initial few pages are very interesting and well written. Then, however, the dialog starts... and it's AWFUL!!! I'm talking "B-movie, cliche, boring" awful. It was so bad that I couldn't imagine being able to finish the book.

Janine G. (
alibrian) wrote on 6/12/2006...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Warning: This thriller will push you past the borders of suspense.
On a desolate island off the southern coast of Chile, an incredible discovery is made: a gigantic meteorite, the largest ever found, entombed in the earth for millions of years. Half a world away, billionaire entrepreneur Palmer Lloyd decides he must have it as the centerpiece of his grandiose new museum. He is willing to pay any price--in dollars and in lives. Getting it back to New York poses a particular challenge: It will be the heaviest object ever moved by humankind...
Fueled by Lloyd's money, an audacious expedition takes shape. Disguising a state-of-the-art ship as a rusted freighter, the expedition secretly heads southward with a fail-safe plan to steal the meteorite from Chile. Leading the group is an inscrutable engineer hired by Lloyd, and a world-famous meteorite hunter whose career was shattered by a controversial theory.
Soon, along the icy rim of Antarica, in the grip of a frozen hell, the adventurers are confronted with a terrifying enigma about the origin--and nature--of the meteorite. It is a mystery they must solve--if they are to escape with their very lives.