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60° SOUTH:
NOTHING BUT SEA, ICE AND UNFETTERED STORMS.
BUT TWO MILES DOWN, SOMETHING IS STIRRING.
Five years ago, Eli Glinn led a mission to recover a 25,000-ton meteorite - the largest ever discovered - from a remote island off the coast of South America. It ended in disaster when their ship foundered and broke apart in a vicious storm.
But now, two miles down in dark Antarctic waters, something is growing. A vast, grotesque structure is simultaneously reaching up towards the waves and burrowing deep into the sea floor. Eli Glinn's worst fear has been realised. He has no choice but to return to the Southern Ocean and attempt to annihilate an entity that threatens the existence of the planet.
But, as he will discover, the entity has no intention of going quietly.
A propos de l'auteur
Douglas Preston, geb. 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studierte in Kalifornien zunächst Mathematik, Biologie, Chemie, Physik, Geologie, Anthropologie und Astrologie und später Englische Literatur. Nach dem Examen startete er seine Karriere beim 'American Museum of Natural History' in New York. Eines Nachts, als Preston seinen Freund Lincoln Child auf eine mitternächtliche Führung durchs Museum einlud, entstand dort die Idee zu ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Thriller 'Relic', dem viele weitere internationale Bestseller folgten. Douglas Preston schreibt auch Solo-Bücher und verfasst regelmäßig Artikel für diverse Magazine. Er lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen drei Kindern an der US-Ostküste.
Lincoln Child, geb. 1957 in Westport, Connecticut, arbeitete nach seinem Studium der Englischen Literatur zunächst als Verlagslektor und später für einige Zeit als Programmierer und System-Analytiker. Während der Recherchen zu einem Buch über das American Museum of Natural History in New York lernte er Douglas Preston kennen und entschloss sich nach dem Erscheinen des gemeinsam verfassten Thrillers 'Relic', Vollzeit-Schriftsteller zu werden. Obwohl die beiden Erfolgsautoren 500 Meilen voneinander entfernt leben, schreiben sie ihre Megaseller gemeinsam: per Telefon, Fax und übers Internet. Lincoln Child publiziert darüber hinaus auch eigene Bücher . Er lebt er mit Frau und Tochter in New Jersey.
Résumé
60° SOUTH:
NOTHING BUT SEA, ICE AND UNFETTERED STORMS.
BUT TWO MILES DOWN, SOMETHING IS STIRRING.
Five years ago, Eli Glinn led a mission to recover a 25,000-ton meteorite - the largest ever discovered - from a remote island off the coast of South America. It ended in disaster when their ship foundered and broke apart in a vicious storm.
But now, two miles down in dark Antarctic waters, something is growing. A vast, grotesque structure is simultaneously reaching up towards the waves and burrowing deep into the sea floor. Eli Glinn's worst fear has been realised. He has no choice but to return to the Southern Ocean and attempt to annihilate an entity that threatens the existence of the planet.
But, as he will discover, the entity has no intention of going quietly.
Préface
Preston and Child's new Gideon Crew novel resolves the cliffhanger at the end of their bestselling thriller, The Ice Limit.
Texte suppl.
For those who like their thrillers flavoured with outlandish science, possible alien threat and potential global extinction, the name, or rather names, to watch is that of writing duo Preston & Child. In fact you might say that Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have cornered this rather exclusive market and their latest, Beyond the Ice Limit, contains all the crowd-pleasing ingredients one has come to expect
Commentaire
'For those who like their thrillers flavoured with outlandish science, possible alien threat and potential global extinction, the name, or rather names, to watch is that of writing duo Preston & Child. In fact you might say that Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have cornered this rather exclusive market and their latest, Beyond the Ice Limit, contains all the crowd-pleasing ingredients one has come to expect' Shots Magazine
