Ice, Wind and Fire [Paperback]

Mel Keegan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 085449135X | ISBN-13: 978-0854491353 | Publication Date: October 1990

20th Anniversary Edition! It's hurricane, bushfire, drug smuggling, murder and mayhem when two newspaper men try to take a Caribbean vacation ...and walk right into the storm of the decade. Sizzling gay romance from the pen of the maestro! In this first of the Mel Keegan thrillers - reissued here with a brilliant new cover to celebrate its twentieth anniversary - Greg Farris and Alex Connor, two hot-shot newsmen from Perspective magazine head out to Jamaica on a vacation which soon goes askew. Scuba diving right after a Caribbean storm, they discover the wreck of a light plane ... and in hours the lid is off Pandora's box. Their holiday becomes a fight to survive in the teeth of smugglers, slave traders, murderers - and the worst the elements can throw at them. "This rip-roaring and colorful new gay thriller Zooms along with a breathless enthusiasm That never flags" - Time Out

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

A self-confessed science fiction and fantasy devotee, Mel Keegan is known for novels across a wide range of subjects, from the historical to the future action-adventure ... but certainly MK is best known for the NARC series, featuring iconic characters Jarrat and Stone. Mel lives in South Australia with an eccentric family. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Heretic Books (October 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 085449135X
• ISBN-13: 978-0854491353
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,804,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shake, Rattle and Roll, March 11, 2000

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Drew Brainiard "watchword" (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ice, Wind and Fire (Paperback)

Investigative journalists (although they seem more like cops or special agents) and long-time lovers, Alex Connor and Greg Farris are taking a much needed holiday in sunny Jamaica when they discover the submerged wreckage of an airplane--containing the pilot's skeleton. On the way to report their find to the local police they are nearly run off the road by gun-toting thugs. The pace never lets up from there. In many ways, ICE, WIND AND FIRE is Keegan's strongest book. He evokes a strong sense of place and time (Disco, anyone?), and the characters of Alex and Greg are sharply-drawn and very real (as another reviewer noted, they bear marked resemblance to the Stone and Jarrat characters in EQUINOX and DEATH'S HEAD--which is not a criticism; whatever works is good). These lads are people Keegan knows inside and out, and their relationship rings true because of it. In the vein of STORM TIDE, this is another breathlessly-paced, action/adventure romance (Romance with a capital 'R') from the writer who is making the genre his own.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An 80's classic, November 28, 1999

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Jeil (East Anglia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ice, Wind and Fire (Paperback)

This has just been re released, and now we're a few years past its setting, it's just as historically perfect as Keegan's more distant past novels. If you want to remember the early 80s as they were, this is the book to read. One of Keegan's excellent modern day thrillers, this follows a plot which interweaves with characters who could hold a story between them without needing a mystery at all. I suspect Alex and Greg were proto types for Jarrat and Stone: the background of Greg's history and of a relationship built with a survivor of abuse is discreet and yet wrenchingly accurate. The plot follows the rather frequent Keegan danger of being sold into white slavery- does the author keep a harem somewhere? - but is as usual, as fast and active and engaging as any Keegan book always is. A great read and characters well worth revisting.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A raunchy gay adventure, August 29, 2000

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"blissengine" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ice, Wind and Fire (Paperback)

I found the story of Alex & Greg while on vacation finding a sunken airplane which begins their adventure trying to stop criminals quite lively and compelling. The many sexy scenes are quite wonderful, although after a while I was finding them a bit tedious. Not even James Bond has that much sex! Even so, this book is a fun read sure to get one's blood pumping (and not just from the fist fights).