Ice Station
Subtitle: a Mariner novel
By: Peter Tonkin
Edition: 1st world ed.
Series: Mariners series
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sutton, Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780727880420
Subjects: Nuclear facilities; Search and rescue operations; Richard Mariner (Fictitious character); Fiction; Ice storms; Submarine disasters
Description: Late summer in the Siberian Sea. Richard Mariner stands in the main control centre of Ice Station Zemlya, Russia's massive new floating nuclear facility. But there are dangerous undercurrents. The international team setting up Zemlya are riven with disagreement, and there has been a relentless series of apparent accidents. But as a huge ice storm whirls towards the platform, threatening to cast it adrift in US waters, Richard realizes that someone is plotting to bring about a nuclear catastrophe ...