Ice Station: A Shane Schofield Thriller

Matthew Reilly

Sep 1999 · Scarecrow Series Book 1 · Sold by Macmillan

About this ebook

A fast-paced thriller from bestselling author Matthew Reilly, Ice Station.

Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On one edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself...

A team of U.S. divers, exploring three thousand feet beneath the ice shelf has vanished. Sending out an SOS, Wilkes draws a rapid deployment team of Marines-and someone else...

First comes a horrific firefight. Then comes a plunge into a drowning pool filled with killer whales. Next comes the hard part, as a handful of survivors begin an electrifying, red-hot, non-stop battle of survival across the continent and against wave after wave of elite military assassins-who've all come for one thing: a secret buried deep beneath the ice...

Ratings and reviews

I really want to like this book but in the end I couldn't. The fight scenes are dragged out, the characters read like they are from a video game and the main character survives every encounter on nothing but luck. Hoping something closer to a Tom Clancy read but this book really let me down.

The book seemed really accurate and at least plausible at first. As the story went on, however, the logical function of equipment, general physics and realistic behavior by characters all got farther and farther from reality. I know it's fiction, but come on.

The plot had me on edge with every turn of a page. I felt like I was in every battle that happened. I love great action, combative stories and this really captured each moment.

About the author

Matthew Reilly is the bestselling author of Temple, Area 7, Scarecrow, Contest, Hell Island, Seven Ancient Wonders, Six Sacred Stones, The Five Greatest Warriors and Hover Car Racer. More than 3.5 million copies of his thrillers have been sold around the world, and he has also written several screenplays and published several magazine articles. Reilly was born in 1974 and studied law at the University of New South Wales. He lives in Sydney, Australia.