The Ice Limit
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| Author | Lincoln Child Douglas Preston |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Thriller, Science fiction |
| Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
| Publication date | 18 July, 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 464 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-044-652-587-9 |
| Preceded by | Thunderhead |
| Followed by | Beyond the Ice Limit (?) |
The Ice Limit is a 2000 science fiction, adventure novel by authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
[edit] Plot summary
Billionaire Palmer Lloyd hires a team to acquire the largest meteorite on earth for his new museum. The ancient meteorite is buried on an inhospitable Chilean island, located north of the "Ice Limit", a section of ocean near Antarctica in which extremely rough seas, huge icebergs and much danger is the norm.
Eli Glinn, the president of Effective Engineering Solutions, Inc. (Glinn has appeared in other Douglas Preston/ Lincoln Child novels) puts together a team to accomplish this recovery. His team includes: a mathematician, Rachel Amira; an engineer, Manuel Garza; as well as a meteorite hunter, Sam McFarlane and a supertanker captain, Sally Britton.
The team travels to Isla Desolacion, near Cape Horn. The meteorite is found but weighs approximately 25,000 tons. It is made of material not known to exist in the solar system. It proves Sam McFarlane's theory of an interstellar meteorite.
As soon as they arrive at the island, they make an enemy of a disgraced Chilean navy officer. Eventually, the meteorite is excavated, and is moved onto the supertanker Rolvaag. The Chilean navy officer finds out their plot and tries to stop them, forcing them to go below the Ice Limit.
[edit] Potential sequel
Novel Still Life with Crows makes reference to a fictional Preston & Child book called Beyond the Ice Limit, apparently a sequel to The Ice Limit.
[edit] Webilogue
Some time after "The Ice Limit" was published, the authors posted a semi-epilogue on their discussion forum as a nod to the readers: written as a short collection of fictional newspaper articles, it described the survivors of "The Ice Limit" setting off onto a new expedition into the Antarctic regions, in order to face the consequences of their actions in the original novel.
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