BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT
That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is
now...
With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most
high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end
of humankind on earth.
Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective
Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic
meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the
coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship,
the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and
broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One
hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left
paralyzed.
But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying:
the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock.
Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space.
Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below
the surface-and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will
be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate
it, a task which requires Gideon's expertise with nuclear weapons. But
as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the "meteorite" has a mind
of its own-and it has no intention of going quietly...**
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