![]() ![]() ![]() Reilly's debut evokes a host of predecessors, including Jaws, The Andromeda Strain, The X-Files and the combat novels of Tom Clancy. From that discovery onward, this first novel offers nonstop thrills as Schofield and his team fight for their lives-and for those of the remaining American scientists-against French and British commandos and a secret American spy group against killer whales and strange aquatic mammals and against time, for both the French and British commandos harbor ""eraser"" plans to wipe out all survivors in case of mission failure. ![]() ![]() Would the French government kill Americans to capture a frozen UFO? Probably: six of the French ""scientists"" turn out to be the members of the French special forces. By the time the leathernecks reach Wilkes, three days later, one of the scientists has killed another, six more members of the Wilkes team have disappeared in the ice cave and eight French scientists from a nearby station are for some reason at the U.S. Shane ""Scarecrow"" Schofield and his highly trained team of Marines respond to the scientists' distress signal. After a team of American scientists at Wilkes Ice Station discover what seems to be a spaceship in a four-million-year-old cavern below the ice, two of the divers disappear while checking out the craft. ![]()
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