ICEFIRE

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Summary: Fires on all cylindars
Review: Great action book!! It lagged a little in the middle but only for a while. This story starts off and finishes with edge of your "couch" action. Played out like a big budget action movie. Highly recommended. Don't read Quicksilver first because you'll be too turned off to get to this one!!

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Summary: It made me a convert
Review: I always thought my dad was crazy for reading all those Tom Clancy novels. Icefire turned my whole perception of techno thrillers around. As a reader who is just as interested in characters as plot lines, I found this book engaging from the get go. I also read to learn, and quite enjoyed delving into military jargon, solitons vs. tsunami, and my great love of the SR-71 Blackbird was quite satisfied with that amazing aircraft's role in the action. The Nevada Rain, of course, was just plain cool. The authors are also not afraid to kill people which I find painful and realistic. Death is the second inevitablity after taxes and it is a refreshing change from gold-plated characters who sometimes, maybe, get a hangnail or the poor "red-shirts" (the nameless guys in Star Trek who always bought it and were eulogized by a mournful Bones in some variation of 'He's dead, Jim.') The reader is energized and drawn into the drama because of this no nonsense, stark addition of death, no longer just irritated with those baddies but just aching to get the part where they get a taste of their own medicine. I have not heard about a film, but can't wait to see it should it become a reality. A great read, even if you don't much care for the genre because it incorporates so much more. It is so satisfying when you have a History Channel husband who starts with amazement at hearing CincPac roll glibly off your tongue.

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Summary: It made me a convert
Review: I always thought my dad was crazy for reading all those Tom Clancy novels. Icefire turned my whole perception of techno thrillers around. As a reader who is just as interested in characters as plot lines, I found this book engaging from the get go. I also read to learn, and quite enjoyed delving into military jargon, solitons vs. tsunami, and my great love of the SR-71 Blackbird was quite satisfied with that amazing aircraft's role in the action. The Nevada Rain, of course, was just plain cool. The authors are also not afraid to kill people which I find painful and realistic. Death is the second inevitablity after taxes and it is a refreshing change from gold-plated characters who sometimes, maybe, get a hangnail or the poor "red-shirts" (the nameless guys in Star Trek who always bought it and were eulogized by a mournful Bones in some variation of 'He's dead, Jim.') The reader is energized and drawn into the drama because of this no nonsense, stark addition of death, no longer just irritated with those baddies but just aching to get the part where they get a taste of their own medicine. I have not heard about a film, but can't wait to see it should it become a reality. A great read, even if you don't much care for the genre because it incorporates so much more. It is so satisfying when you have a History Channel husband who starts with amazement at hearing CincPac roll glibly off your tongue.

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Summary: What a RUSH!!
Review: I gotta hand it to Judith & Garfield...having read several of their Star Trek novels (far and away the best out there, too) I was taken by surprise when I noticed a techno-thriller with their name on it. I checked the wallet, found enough and got me a copy and took it home...fast forward a few days...!!!WOW!!! This book can rival just about any techno-thriller out there! If I were to have ANY criticism at all, it would be that at times the explanation of the tidal force unleashed at the bottom of the world was a bit over my head. Now I'm by no means a genius, but it certainly SOUNDED plausible. Fun and very fast paced, this locomotion in print is a MUST READ for any who enjoys a good action/adventure novel. By the way, the comparisons to Clancy and Cussler are TOTALLY deserved.

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Summary: A Very Good Techno Thriller
Review: I just finished reading Icefire and I couldn't put it down. There was suspense after suspense from the start. I really enjoyed how the action jumped off at the beginning though at the pole. Webber, Bailey, and Cory were excellent heros and very believable too. I really thought the concept of having a Navy SEAL who could also pilot multiple airplanes was a very new and awesome concept (and probably not far from the truth). The technologies used in the book were awesome as well, I partiulary enjoyed the Nevada Rain aircraft.

I only wish that at the end of the book there would have been some type of follow up as to how Webber, Cory, and Bailey ended up. The book was technically acurate but there were a lot of acronyms and abbreviations in the book, a glossary of acronyms and abbreviations in the back of the book would have really helped because I found myself turning back to the beginning a lot just to remember what one of the abbreviations meant. But fortunately I spent 7 years on active duty in the United States Army so I could relate to the abbreviation use with little problem.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes techno thrillers. This is definitely up there with the Hunt For Red October and Without Remorse (both written by Tom Clancy).

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Summary: Like the perfect wave it takes awhile to get going
Review: Just finished Icefire, and thought that the action sequences on the Ice in the beginning were very good, but the suspense building moments in the Pentagon seem to bog the story down in a barrage of initials that even i lost track of their meaning. The Wave is portrayed in a truly frightening, and awe inspiring light. The sequence on the airstrip in Hawaii, and aboard a submarine was very moving, and scary. The hero Mitch Webber's ability to fly everything under the sun is explained, and I thought that the talent was an ingenius way to introduce to the reader ALL sorts of different aircraft. The last third of the book is excellent, but yes it does take a little time to get there. overall i say go ahead and buy it, but please be patient with it. Guys I still Love your work!!

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Summary: AWESOME, THE BEST BOOK I'VE READ IN A LONG TIME
Review: This book is a great read and can be finished in no time at all. Never before in a book has a character gotten to me so much that I started to get upset at him. This book was all I could think of until I finally finished it. If you only read one book read this one!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Gripping
Review: This book is one of the few that I just could not put down. The story is interwoven with such high-tech equipment and so believable that once you are in you can't let go. The military equipment mentioned in the book is on the edge of fiction and fact. A must read for anybody who is into a militaristic fiction plot that seems based on quite alot of fact.

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Summary: Excellent, gripping techno-thriller !
Review: This is my fisrt Judith and Gerald Reeves-Stevens novel. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I rated its as better than some of the works done by Clancy,cussler.

The Thriller was written with an air of plausibility. The tecnical details are described in a way anyone can understand. The characters in the story, Abbot, Webber, Rey, Bailey, Hurd are those you would identify with.

Do check out this book in your next visit to the bookshop or library.

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Summary: The plausible terror scenario makes the story work
Review: This story is based on a novel idea for an act of planetary terrorism. Nuclear weapons are used to break the Ross ice shelf in Antarctica from its' connections to the land. This creates an enormous tidal wave that threatens all coastal areas in the Pacific rim. As I began the book, I spent a great deal of thought wondering if such an event was possible. Once the conclusion was reached that it was, then the story became much more engrossing. It is an ideal premise for a suspense novel, in that it is a plausible scenario.
Initial premise aside, the authors keep up a rapid pace, building towards a conclusion that ends far too quickly. While the main plot is strong and keeps your interest, there are some subplot lines that weakened the story. The general that took the position that millions of lives should be sacrificed so that a war could be started is an artificial character. His failures would have been clear for all to know and there was no way that he could have emerged as a hero.
The battles between the two main characters also became a strain and I found myself skimming those sections devoted to their quarrels. Nevertheless, for the most part I was hooked on the story and ignored all the calls of my other work until I completed it.