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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #175524 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-23
• Released on: 2009-06-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.24" h x 6.50" w x 9.60" l, 1.27 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780765320087
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Evans and Jameson follow their bestselling debut, Category 7, about an evil scientist and his manmade hurricanes, with an eco-thriller with an even more imaginative premise. Deep beneath the seabed in the eastern Caribbean near the island of Taino lies a massive bed of methane hydrate, the only truly clean-burning fuel on earth. Megabusinessman Dennis Cavendish, Taino's owner, has built an undersea habitat, Atlantis, from which he plans to mine the methane hydrate, a complicated operation that, if bungled, could imperil the planet. Out to sabotage the process is charismatic Garner Blaylock, Earth activist, unsung genius and Dennis Cavendish's worst nightmare. Blaylock and his team of sex-enslaved women are prepared to die destroying all human life if it means cleansing the globe of pollutants. Readers will race right along with Dr. Sam Briscoe, a methane specialist, and the novel's other good guys as they feverishly strive to save the world. (June)
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From Booklist
Ever wonder the result if Harold Robbins had written a disaster novel? Although Harold has gone on to take his place with Shakespeare and Hemingway, his purple prose lives on in this sophomore (or perhaps sophomoric) venture from meteorologist (aka TV weatherman) Evans and sci-tech specialist Jameson. Risk-taking billionaire Dennis Cavendish has discovered a method to tap vast supplies of crystallized methane (a powerful new energy source) from deep beneath the Caribbean, but eco-terrorists destroy his facility and release massive quantities of methane into the ocean. If the methane builds up in the atmosphere, all life on earth will become extinct. The characters are barely one-dimensional: all the women are beautiful and sexy, while all the men—from the U.S. president on down to the bit-player security guards—are handsome and hard-bodied; the dialogue is right out of a 1960s James Bond movie; and the plot is formulaic. But the science makes sense, the gore factor is off the chart, and the villains are high-end despicable, so count on this one for a no-calorie summer snack—perfect for lazing on the beach or passing time in the airport. --Michael Gannon

Review

Customer Reviews

A bit of science fiction mixed with a bit of cheese.
Overall, "Frozen Fire" was a less-than-average way to pass the weekend. There are some interesting ideas presented, but they alway seem to be mixed with a little bit of cheese in the form of oddly written lines and out-of-context sexual situations (especially one of the final situations where the sex was flat-out ridiculously placed).

I liked that the book delved in to a potential disaster that I had not seen or heard of previously in science fiction movies or books, but did not care for the way solutions came about magically and quickly at the onset of every deadly situation. One thing that was particularly distracting were the character names, they were a little clumsy and hard to read over and over again.

There are some tense moments in the book that are well-written, but they are quickly undone by the above issues. It's short enough to be worth a read, just don't expect to be blown away by it. There is some interesting science behind the book, but it's never really laid-out for the reader - if it was made in to a movie it would be on-par with "The Core" and just below "The Day After Tomorrow".

Not what I expected.
Okay, first we have an eccentric genius of unbound wealth who wants to make the world a better place, so he tampers with an energy source so dangerous that it might DESTROY THE ENTIRE PLANET.

So this egomaniac buys and island in the middle of the Bermuda triangle and sets up an entire country, complete with an ambassador to the United States. Of course, he has a very small army of ex-Navy seals, but they seem to be enough to deter larger countries from coming in to see what they are up too--even though there are suspicions they are up to no good. On this island he manages to create a secret world 4000 feet below the water where he is going to drill for a gas that is so volatile and dangerous it could DESTROY THE ENTIRE PLANET. But he is not concerned that it will happen. He has "safety" shields all over the place.

His enemy, also an eccentric genius, hides behind the façade of a huge world-wide conglomerate to "save the world's resources" from idiots like the above mentioned trillionaire. Now this guy is so charismatic he manages to "overwhelm" several women who work for the other guy, and convince them to help him destroy the island, performing suicidal missions all because of mind-blowing sex with this guy. Never mind that his plan will also DESTROY THE ENTIRE PLANET.

The entire political powers of the world appear to sit on their collective backsides watching this play out while doing nothing to stop them from DESTROYING THE ENTIRE PLANET.

The characters are wooden and unrealistic for the most part. If you like comic strip action and graphic descriptions of rotting bodies you will love this book.

Very exciting and detailed but too little time/pages spent on climax.
This book begins with Micky, assistant to the security chief on the privately owned island of Taina, preparing to dive in a submersible. The captain of the boat, thinks she is replacing some sensors or some other task but the reader is soon informed that she is placing detonators all along a cliff above Dennis Cavendish's underwater methane crystal mining installation. Dennis is just getting ready to reveal it to the world and bring it online so he has gathered a bunch of CEO's to show.

He as President of Taina and Victoria Clark, his security chief/secretary of state visit the underwater installation named Atlantis to see that all is ready to go. Plus Dennis makes a video tape that will be shown to the CEO's as they fly to Taina from Florida.

Just after Victoria and Dennis return to the surface, disaster strikes and the plane that was carrying the corporate leaders explodes and falls to the ocean just as it is on approach to Taina. The pilot, Wendy, the reader is shown earlier is also part of the plot.

Who is behind this plot and how many Taina insiders are working for this eco-terrorist group? The President of the US and his intelligence chief also become concerned as more disasters strike and the underwater installation is destroyed and methane is leaking into the atmosphere.

Very exciting twists and very excellent research but the climax is so quickly given in about the last 30 pages of the book that it left me feeling cheated. Even the epilogue is not very satisfying.

Next time, write a longer conclusion!!