| Terminal Freeze | |
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| Author(s) | Lincoln Child |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Thriller Science fiction |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Publication date | January 27, 2009 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 576 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-7393-2826-2 |
| OCLC Number | 227929898 |
| Preceded by | Deep Storm |
| Followed by | The Third Gate[1] |
Terminal Freeze is a solo novel by Lincoln Child. The novel was released on February 24, 2009.
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The events take place in Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle. Evan Marshall, a paleoecologist, is a team member from Northern Massachusetts University studying the effects of global warming on a receding glacier near the fictional Mount Fear.
The expedition discovers a monstrous ancient animal, presumed to be a preserved example of Smilodon populator, frozen in solid ice inside a lava tube made into an ice cave. The expedition's corporate sponsors, sensing huge publicity, decide to have the beast cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed live on television. Meanwhile, local Tunit try to warn the scientists that they do not understand what they have found. Specific warnings are that the animal only exists to kill and that they (the Tunit) do not believe that it is dead. A fanatical documentary producer continues his attempt to capture the events of the discovery, even after the animal exceeds any expectations of its capabilities. (Tunit was the name assigned to the Dorset People in Greenland by the early Thule proto-Inuit. The last Dorset survivors died in 1902 and no Dorset People ever lived in Alaska, being resident in eastern Canada and Greenland.)
The story of this book is similar to The Thing from Another World, where a group of scientists find a creature in ice, which then breaks free and attacks the scientists.
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