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A group of scientists undertake an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly when the group heads out on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave and makes an astonishing find.
Author Notes
Lincoln Child was born in Westport, Connecticut in 1957. He received a degree in English from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. After graduation, he obtained a position as an editorial assistant at St. Martin's Press and eventually became a full editor in 1984. He left St. Martin's Press in 1987 for a job at MetLife and began writing.
Child has co-written numerous books with Douglas Preston including Relic, White Fire, Cold Vengeance, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance, Gideon's Corpse, Blue Labyrinth, and Two Graves. In 2003, he published his first solo novel entitled Utopia. His other solo works include Death Match, Deep Storm, Terminal Freeze, The Third Gate, and The Forgotten Room.
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Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In this taut, suspenseful SF thriller from bestseller Child (Deep Storm), an obscure scientific expedition in Alaska's remote Federal Wilderness Zone stumbles on the frozen body of what appears to be a saber-tooth tiger in a cave, though only the eyes are clearly visible through the ice. When news of the find reaches the cable television network sponsoring the expedition, Emilio Conti, a legendary documentary filmmaker, rushes to the scene, where he plans to film the thawing of the animal on live TV. After the frozen creature disappears, Conti suspects sabotage, until horribly eviscerated corpses begin to pile up at the military base hosting the expedition. Paleoecologist Evan Marshall suspects that the prehistoric beast is responsible-and that the initial identification of it as a saber-tooth was mistaken. While the story line of a horrific monster picking off a shrinking group of survivors in a confined area is nothing new, Child's superior writing raises this above the pack. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Furry prehistoric beast thaws, then makes up for lost meals with human victims. Paleoecologist Evan Marshall leads a group of scientists into "The Zone" in northeastern Alaska. Working out of a small base known as the Mount Fear Remote Sensing Installation, his team from Northern Massachusetts University is doing research on global warming. The only other humans around are a small number of Native Americans, Tunits, to the north. Beneath the ice floor in a cave, the team spots a frozen creature, two fist-sized yellow eyes surrounded by black pupilsperhaps, as the team believes, a saber-toothed tiger. When Usuguk, an elder of the Tunits, arrives to warn the team of evil and advise them to leave, Marshall politely but firmly refuses. Meanwhile, in Virginia, Dr. Jeremy Logan discovers some ominous, though unspecified, information about Fear Base in top-secret documents from the 1950s. More turmoil rocks The Zone with the arrival of brash Emilio Conti, an executive producer with a documentary film crew, big as Marshall's and twice as boisterous, that promptly sets up a makeshift adjoining camp. The only respectful filmmaker is attractive producer Kari Ekberg. Marshall tries to oust Conti and company, but the producer's smug announcement that the film has financed the entire expedition effectively neutralizes any objections. After Conti sets about melting the block of ice, the creature inside proves much larger than a cat, though it disappears before anyone gets a good look. Then the tastefully depicted carnage begins. As the body count rises, an ice-road trucker named Carradine boldly drives most of the cast to safety while Conti prepares to film the beast and Marshall seeks help from the Tunits. Child (Deep Storm, 2007, etc.) depicts his frigid setting with greater authority than his characters, diminishing his thriller's impact. Far from a classic, but a minor-league Jurassic. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
At a remote science outpost near the Arctic Circle, researchers find what appears to be an animal frozen in the ice. A film crew arrives and digs it out, intending to make a documentary around the creature. But after the animal thaws out, and starts tearing people apart, everybody suddenly has only one thing on his mind: staying alive. This thriller bears more than a passing resemblance to John W. Campbell's well-known 1938 novella, Who Goes There?, in which a monster terrorizes a remote Antarctic research station. Campbell's story, published when the world was on the brink of war, was about claustrophobia, paranoia, and fear of the unknown; Child's is a much more traditional monster-on-the-rampage story, lacking the thematic depth that made Campbell's an enduring classic. Campbell's monster was a creature from outer space, long buried in the ice. Childs's is an earthly animal, long buried in the ice -- in function, the same creature, just with a different back story. There is no pressing need for this novel: we already have the Campbell novella, plus the two movie versions (1951 and 82), plus a myriad other variations on the theme. But Childs is a solid writer with a solid track record, and the book should do well with his fans. Recommended more on the strength of the author's name than on the strength of the story itself, which is well handled but ultimately unmemorable.--Pitt, David Copyright 2009 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Scientists at work above the Arctic Circle discover a large, catlike creature encased in ice and thaw it out with much fanfare. Bad idea. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.