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| Fire Ice (The Numa Files) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 217126
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 042519602X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425196021
ASIN: 042519602X
Publication Date: June 1, 2004
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In his novels Serpent and Blue Gold, #1 bestselling author Clive Cussler introduced a hero for the new millennium: Kurt Austin, the leader of NUMA's Special Assignment Team, and an instant hit with critics and fans. Tulsa World said, "As always, Cussler twists fact and fiction into a rope of tension that will leave you dangling until the last page." Now Kurt Austin returns to tackle his most dangerous mission to date...
In the heart of the old Soviet Union, a mining tycoon is determined to overthrow the Russian government-distracting the U.S. with a man-made natural disaster using a notoriously unstable compound known as "fire ice." Detonation of this compound could create a tidal wave big enough to destroy a major city. But Kurt Austin and his Special Assignment Team are about to make a few waves of their own...
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 More Cussler Fun January 8, 2008
I received this book as a present for my husband during the holidays and finished it quickly. I love Cussler's books, they are fun reading and enjoyable, which is what fiction should be.
Fire Ice is a Kurt Austin adventure, "taken from the NUMA files." Kurt is one of he newer Cussler characters and he's the head of the Special Assignments Team. In Fire Ice, Austin is after a Russian mining tycoon who is planning to take over the Russian Government, then attack the US with a methan hydrate. And in the fashion of Dirk Pitt, Austin also has a sidekick (Joe Zavala) and in the midst of stopping the takeover of the Russian Government, and subsequent destruction of the United States, Kurt finds time to impress a lady.
I think Dirk Pitt will always be my first love (well second love behind my husband) but Kurt can always find a place in my heart too.
 Russian History, Submarines, and Methane Hydrate December 27, 2007
While this definitely is not one of Cussler's best books, it still is great beach reading. The prolog tells how a single survivor of the Romanov ruling family escapes death, and this is the setup for the bad-guy later in the book..he's planning to claim Romanov heritage in order to reclaim the throne of Russia and build his own world-spanning empire. To help this plan out, he has devised a method of creating tsunamis that can be focused on a target. He plans to destroy most of the U.S. east coast in order to keep America busy while he solidifies his empire. Enter Kurt Austin to foil his evil plans.
Kemprecos and Cussler's Fire Ice September 1, 2007
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Excellent writing as usual. I get lost in the reading. Can't wait to start the next book.
Trouble in North Africa June 27, 2007
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Clive Cussler was born in 1931 and grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting. He has also explored the deserts of the American Southwest in search of lost gold mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for lost aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance, discovering and identifying more than sixty. He is married with three children, and divides his time between Colorado and Arizona. His credentials as a best selling author cannot be doubted and he has a large `stable' of best selling adventure novels.
This time Clive Cussler takes up to North Africa, a place in turmoil. The unrest that has been simmering there for years suddenly comes to a head. The new Libyan president has had the new Egyptian president assassinated. There are bound to be repercussions and the Egyptian president's widow, Susan Salaam has vowed to take revenge on his killers and the man who instigated the assassination.
She enlists the help of Air Force general Patrick McClanahan and his Night Stalkers. But the Libyans and their allies hold an ace up their sleeves. One that has a personal meaning for McClanahan and it could be one that will leave even the Night Stalkers powerless to do anything about . . .
Is Cussler Running Out of Steam??? Sure Hope Not! July 17, 2006
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I've been listening to Cussler's books on tape or CD and with each one have thought "this is the best one yet"....until now. It's not that Fire Ice is bad, it just isn't the rollercoaster ride I've come to expect and enjoy. Kurt seems a bit bland in this story and Joe's libido got on my nerves. And the ending (AFTER the encounter with Ivan who is GREAT and I'd like to read about again) is PITIFUL! Reads like an old fashioned romance book sequence..yuck! But seeing as how Gamay (dunno how to spell but Paul Trout's normally marvelous wife) was left in the background for the most part, I guess the poorly written tryst with the reporter shouldn't be a surprise. On the plus side, Paul Trout got to do a lot for a change, the computer sequences were great as was the overall plot. But when a non-NUMA character (Ivan) gets the heart stopping action parts, ya gotta wonder what's going on. Even so, I look forward to the rest of the Dirk/Kurt stories and recommend them to one and all for an adventurous read!
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