Fire and Ice - Softcover

Garrison, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0002258072 ISBN 13: 9780002258074

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1998

Synopsis

They took his wife and daughter, and left him stranded on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They should have killed him.

Doctors Michael and Sarah Stone and their ten-year-old daughter Ronnie sail their hospital boat to a remote Pacific atoll. A huge cargo ship named the Dallas Belle radios for medical assistance. Little Ronnie loves visiting ships, so Sarah sails out with her to help. Stone sees the Dallas Belle hoist his sailboat on deck and steam away with his wife and daughter. He is stranded 250 miles from the nearest radio, with no idea how to rescue his kidnapped family.

Sarah discovers that the Dallas Belle is heading towards Shanghai and that the owner, Mr Jack, is going to use the ship’s cargo of liquified natural gas – which contains a destructive power equal to ten of the atomic bombs that fell on Japan in 1945 – as a bomb to destroy Tokyo. Knowing that her husband will somehow come after them, Sarah takes advantage of the chaos of a gas fire to radio their destination to a friend on the Palau Islands.

Stone repairs a tiny wrecked canoe and sets out to rescue his wife and daughter. He gets Sarah’s message and, with the help of friends in Hong Kong, gets to Shanghai, where he rescues Sarah. But Ronnie is recaptured and held hostage by Mr Jack as the Dallas Belle sets off on her last voyage to destroy Tokyo. The drama rises in a crescendo as Stone and Sarah try to save their daughter and stop the cataclysm.

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Review

‘Fire and Ice is a wonderfully entertaining sea adventure, a fast moving odyssey that delivers an exciting climax’
Clive Cussler

‘He infuses every act with heart-stopping suspense and a master storyteller’s gift. One of the best thrillers to steam into view for some time, it makes readers want to navigate through Fire and Ice in a single sitting’
People

From the Back Cover

Doctors Michael and Sarah Stone have reasons of their own for cruising the remote corners of the Pacific in their hospital sailing boat. With their ten-year-old daughter Ronnie, they offer assistance to the people of the far-flung islands, and sometimes to mariners who have met with an emergency.

When they are radioed by a huge liquefied gas carrier, the 'Dallas Belle', lying of a remote atoll, it seems that just such a case has come up. Leaving Michael to investigate a tiny native canoe beached on the atoll, Sarah and Ronnie set off to the massive ship.

But his is no routine call for medical assistance. Alone on the atoll, Michael is horrified to see the 'Dallas Belle' simply sail away with his wife and child.

Hundreds of miles from even the nearest radio, he must undertake an epic journey in the half-wrecked canoe in order to find help and begin to plot a rescue.

Meanwhile, the kidnapped Sarah and Ronnie must fight to stay alive as the true horror of their situation becomes apparent – for the stone family have become caught up in an audacious and terrifying plot that will rock the world.

'Fire and Ice' is a heartstopping novel of suspense and fantastic seaborne action.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0002258072
• ISBN 13: 9780002258074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356