Beyond the ice limit / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.
<i>That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now...</i> With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the <i>Rolvaag</i>, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking--along with its unique cargo--to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed. But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space. Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface--and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon' expertise with nuclear weapons. But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the "meteorite" has a mind of its own and it has no intention of going quietly... -- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781455525867
- ISBN: 1455525863
- Physical Description: 375 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Richlands Branch Library | FIC PRESTON (Text) | 36015001332986 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | FIC PRESTON (Text) | 36015001210083 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Swansboro Branch Library | FIC PRESTON (Text) | 36015000823670 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
