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The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It is taking them.
- Sales Rank: #145205 in Books
- Color: Multicolor
- Brand: Horror Novels Grand Central Publishing
- Published on: 2001-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.13" w x 4.13" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 512 pages
Amazon.com Review
Billionaire Palmer Lloyd is accustomed to getting what he wants--and what he wants for his new museum is the largest meteorite on earth. Unfortunately for Lloyd, it's buried on an inhospitable Chilean island just north of the Ice Limit in the most brutal, unforgiving seas in the world.
Fortunately for Lloyd, he knows people--people like Eli Glinn, the hyper-focused president of Effective Engineering Solutions, Inc.; Glinn's nonconformist, genius of a mathematician, Rachel Amira; and the uncannily able construction engineer, Manuel Garza. Lloyd's also tapped the brilliant but disgraced meteorite hunter, Sam McFarlane, and the exceptional supertanker captain, Sally Britton, whose career was unshipped by intemperance and a reef. Of course, such a team has a hefty price tag: Lloyd's broad features narrowed. "And that is... "
"One hundred and fifty million dollars. Including chartering the transport vessel. FOB the Lloyd Museum."
Lloyd's face went pale. "My God. One hundred and fifty million... " His chin sank onto his hands. "For a ten-thousand-ton rock. That's... "
"Seven dollars and fifty cents a pound," said Glinn. EES's plan is to obtain mining rights to the island, secure the allegiance of various Chilean functionaries via blinding sums of money, disguise a state-of- the-art supertanker as a decrepit ore rig, mine the rock, slip it into the ship, and zip back to New York to thunderous notoriety. Unforeseen, however, are a rogue Chilean naval captain, seas to make Sebastian Junger boot, and a blood-red meteorite of undetermined pedigree and a habit of discharging billions of volts of electricity for no apparent reason.
Like Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's earlier collaborations (Relic, Thunderhead, and others), The Ice Limit tools along swiftly, blending nicely drawn characters (excepting, regrettably, the book's true protagonist, the meteorite), a reasonably exciting narrative, and enough graspable science and plausible-seeming theories to bring readers happily up to speed and keep them climax-bound. Not the authors' best effort, certainly, but a fine diversion nonetheless. --Michael Hudson
From Publishers Weekly
The summer-beach reader has few better friends than Preston and Child, who, beginning with Relic (1995), have produced one (generally) smart and suspenseful thriller after another, most recently Thunderhead. Their new novelDwhich, like its predecessors, skirts the edge of science fictionDis their most expertly executed (though not most imaginative) entertainment yet. Its concept is high and simple: a scientific expedition plans to dig out and transport to New York harbor the mother of all meteorites from its resting spot on an icy island offshore Chile. The mission is nearly impossible: not only will the meteorite be the heaviest object ever moved by humanity, but the Chileans, if they learn of the mission, may decimate it in order to keep the meteorite. Six strong if broadly drawn characters propel the premise into action. There's bullheaded billionaire Palmer Lloyd, who funds the expedition, and three (of the many) people he hires to get the rock: world-class meteorite-hunter Sam McFarlane, disgraced for his obsession about possible interstellar meteorites; Captain Britton, disgraced alcoholic skipper hired to ferry the meteorite to the U.S.; and Eli Glinn, cold-blooded mastermind of an engineering firm dedicated to getting incredible jobs doneDthis one at the price of $300 million. There's Commandante Vallenar, a Chilean naval officer exiled to his nation's southern wastes, who will stop at nothing to defend Chile's honor and property. Finally, there's the meteoriteDblood red, impossibly dense, possessed of strange and dangerous properties. Like the premise, the plot is simple, traversing a near-linear narrative that sustains serious tension as the expedition travels to Chile, digs out the meteorite and heads homewardDonly to face both Vallenar and a ferocious storm. What the novel lacks in sophistication, it makes up for in athleticism: this is a big-boned thriller, one that will make a terrific summer movie as well as a memorable hot-day read. (July)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
YA-Hired to locate a meteorite and transfer it to a billionaire collector's new museum, Sam McFarlane uses high technology and groups of experts to find, dig up, and begin shipping the gigantic rock. However, Commandante Vallenar of the Chilean Navy doesn't want it removed from his country. Action on the tanker reaches an intense strain as the crew and members of the recovery team struggle with both the meteorite and a killer storm, a panteonero, which threatens to overwhelm the ship. Gunfire from Vallenar's ship initiates a life-and-death chase as both vessels sail into the frigid waters off Tierra del Fuego. The meteorite, full of unknown properties and prone to sudden bursts of electrical charges, offers the biggest surprise of all, as the ocean stands ready to claim everyone and everything. This is a tempestuous adventure of high seas, high stakes, and high excitement. As characters enter the story, their personalities expand along with the intricate plot, taking on more intensity and power. The extreme hostility of the environment eventually proves to be the deciding factor. Like Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm (Norton, 1997), this natural thriller is not to be missed.
Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great adventure!
By Jarratt Bryan
I read this book years ago and, other than recalling I liked it, remembered little to nothing about it. Except the last few words. And they were a stunner.
I decided to read it again because Preston and Child recently published the a sequel: Beyond the Ice Limit.
The story tells of a very wealthy man who wishes to create a museum like none other. He hears of a strange discovery off the coast of Chile and learns it's the largest meteorite even found. He enlists the help of Eli Glenn and his company, Effective Engineering Solutions (EES), to unearth the meteorite, get it onto a converted oil tanker, and bring it back to New York where the new museum is located. What follows is an amazing story of triumph, failure, and adventure. I've waited a LONG time to see what happens. In a few moments, I'll begin finding out...
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Well defined, but flawed characters in a battle to survive.
By H. A. Friedman
I ordered the Ice Limit because I enjoy the Agent Pendergast books written by Preston and Childs. I thought it was possible that this might be a stinker without my favorite FBI agent, but generally speaking, good authors are very good.
I did enjoy the book. I liked the fact that the story is well written with excellent use of words and grammar. The reader is wonderful and the voices of the different characters were very distinct. The story also goes in a straight line. These days most authors think we need a half-dozen plots, killers, spies, all-powerful secret organizations, etc. That just makes the story hard to read and the characters get lost in all the confusion. This story is straightforward. A rich collector wants an ancient giant rock that fell in Chile; How to get it?
The first half of the book is just about getting to Chile. We have lots of hints of what is to come. We are told that an early finder was killed mysteriously. Does this rock defend itself? Is it a flying saucer as in “The thing,” or a space ship with consciousness like “Five Million Years to Earth?” The Museum of Natural History in New York City is mentioned a few times which made me think of an earlier adventure in “The Relic.” The crew of the ship sent to rescue the rock is made up of good, but flawed individuals. There is a ship’s captain who grounded her last ship on a reef, a meteor hunter who to his regret was involved in smuggling in the past, and a mission planner who lost his unit in Vietnam. All want to do right but have failed at some point.
The ship is a brand new tanker, specially built, made to look like an old wreck so as not to draw attention. Early in the narrative we are told about the dangers of the area around Antarctica and we immediately start to see what must be the plot. The ship will get the rock, the rock must effect the ship is some way so it is powerless in Antarctica. Why else tell use all about the danger? Will that happen or have we been fed a red herring? Only time will tell.
So, the first half of the book we have been introduced to most of the major characters, and we have finally arrived in Chilean waters where the local military and police might have to be bribed to stay away. About the middle of the book we finally get to see the object and they threw me a curve-ball. I was wrong (maybe). Looking back, there was a hint of what it might be but I paid no attention to it. It was almost a throw-away. OK, I need to pay more attention to details.
As the book concludes there is a sea battle with a mad Chilean naval officer, a terrible storm that can rip a ship apart, and sudden activity from the rock. There is no happy ending. It is disaster after disaster. What is the rock? Is it dead or alive? Is it a threat to all life on Earth? If so, how to kill it? No easy answers here!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
One of their best!
By Darleen Michael Baker
This, to me, is probably one of the best stories yet by this duo. I loved their first book, The Relic, and couldn't put it down. since then, IMO, they have swung from almost hit to full-on miss. With "The Ice Limit" they have a winner. I could not stop reading. Not because it was so enthralling but because I wanted to know WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? They have done a masterful job of leading the reader, along with the characters, on treasure hunt.
Yes, some of the characters are one-dimensional (the Comandante of the Chilean destroyer comes instantly to mind) and almost cartoonish in their stereotypical actions but every good action story needs a villain so I was willing to let it ride. It's difficult to come up with a bad guy that far South on the planet!
I had anticipated part of the ending but not the final de nu monde. I had an inkling but was only close, not on target. So now I'm reading the first Gideon Crew novel as "the Ice Limit" appears to be #3 in the series.
If you like James Rollins, then this one should please you as well.
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