Product Description

A compelling thriller of wintery chills, set in the Artic icefields.

A widespread drought is causing murderous famine. There is one possible solution: Arctic ice could be moved south to parched coastlines and melted for water.

In an Arctic icefield, a special team of scientists has planted bombs that will detonate automatically at midnight to break away some of the ice. Before they withdraw to the safety of their base camp, a shattering tidal wave breaks loose the ice on which they are working. Now they are marooned on an iceberg during the worst winter storm of the decade. The bombs in the ice beneath them are buried irretrievably deep...and ticking. Abruptly thrown into a desperate struggle for survival, the scientists are plagued by the discovery that one of them is a ruthless killer on a strange mission of his own...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #302261 in Books
• Published on: 1995-08-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

About the Author
Dean Koontz was born into a very poor family and learned early on to escape into fiction. His novels have sold over 200 million copies worldwide and more than thirty have appeared on national and international bestseller lists. He lives in southern California with his wife, Gerda and a vivid imagination.

Customer Reviews

A succesful pastiche
"Icebound" may take a little while to really get started, but once it does, it's a fine read. Not a great literary classic by any means, but definately one of the more well-written of Koontz' countless novels.
Just don't expect a traditional Koontz novel with supernatural beings, strong heroines, heroic dogs and highly advanced aliens. This is not a horror novel, it is a thriller, and an obvious Alistair MacLean-pastiche. And as such it works very well. Mr MacLean would have had no reason to be ashamed had he written it.

Icebound
Another early Koontz book now slightly revised and released in his own name. An expedition to relieve a worldwide drought by blasting icebergs free from the Arctic Circle is stranded aboard a time bomb when a freak wave cracks a portion of ice, containing sixty bombs, free to drift. If such a problem weren't enough it appears that one of the group is also a murderer! There seems no hope of rescue until suddenly a Russian submarine on manoevres nearby comes to their aid. The only problem is time - will they be rescued before the bombs detonate? A great novel yet again. Although lacking the great depth of characterisation of his later books (mentioned in his own Afterword) this still gripped me and I finished it in a matter of two or three days.

Excellent.
I'm a huge fan of Dean Koontz and while this is certainly not usual Koontz fare, it is a brilliant story. I would have given it 5 stars if it weren't for the rather poor beginning which drags with the weight of too much technical information. However once it picks up the book is very exciting and it's fun to indulge in a little "whodunnit" pondering, a rare luxury with Koontz.