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From Publishers Weekly
Spy-fiction master Freemantle, the creator of British MI6 operative Charlie Muffin (most recently spotted in Kings of Many Castles), takes a refreshing hiatus from the genre with this expert thriller, in which a mysterious doomsday malady threatens to wipe out the human race. American climatologist Jack Stoddart, infamous for his warnings of an impending global warming disaster, heads a rescue team answering an SOS from a group of four scientists at a remote Antarctic research station, only to find them all dead by the time he arrives, felled by a mysterious syndrome causing rapid aging. When all the other members of his rescue team die in the same way, and simultaneous outbreaks are reported above the Arctic Circle in Alaska and Siberia, Stoddart is appointed head of a multinational investigative team headquartered near Washington. His work, already difficult, is further obstructed by the political sparring of a Napoleonic American president; the sexual tactics of a British diplomat scheming to oust his prime minister; a demented Russian virologist who had previously lost her bid for a Nobel Prize to the Americans; and a cast of minor bureaucrats. As these power mongers play their perilous game of chicken, the extinction of the human species is at stake. When a prehistoric colony that died of the same ailment is found in a Siberian cave near Lake Baikal, the stage is set for a taut denouement, and the tension doesn't let up till the final chilling page.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
From the popular British author comes this rather awkward tale of an ancient virus unleashed on the modern world, a virus that causes accelerated aging and, almost inevitably, death. Can scientists from around the world stop the virus before it wipes out the world's population? The story is plausible enough, and the science is detailed and realistic, but the presentation is clumsy, with cookie-cutter characters and dialogue that rarely rings true. Characters who are supposed to be American, for example, speak with distinctly British voices, and American idioms are not quite accurately rendered. The classic virus-on-the-rampage stories, such as Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain, catch the reader up in the tension. Ice Age, on the other hand, keeps readers at a distance, so they don't ever really care what happens to the players. The book is reminiscent of the big-budget disaster movies made in the 1970s: plenty of excitement, a large cast, and no real emotional involvement. Still, fans of imminent-apocalypse fiction should find enough here to keep them reading. David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Spy-fiction master Freemantle, the creator of British MI6 operative Charlie Muffin (most recently spotted in Kings of Many Castles), takes a refreshing hiatus from the genre with this expert thriller, in which a mysterious doomsday malady threatens to wipe out the human race. American climatologist Jack Stoddart, infamous for his warnings of an impending global warming disaster, heads a rescue team answering an SOS from a group of four scientists at a remote Antarctic research station, only to find them all dead by the time he arrives, felled by a mysterious syndrome causing rapid aging. When all the other members of his rescue team die in the same way, and simultaneous outbreaks are reported above the Arctic Circle in Alaska and Siberia, Stoddart is appointed head of a multinational investigative team headquartered near Washington. His work, already difficult, is further obstructed by the political sparring of a Napoleonic American president; the sexual tactics of a British diplomat scheming to oust his prime minister; a demented Russian virologist who had previously lost her bid for a Nobel Prize to the Americans; and a cast of minor bureaucrats. As these power mongers play their perilous game of chicken, the extinction of the human species is at stake. When a prehistoric colony that died of the same ailment is found in a Siberian cave near Lake Baikal, the stage is set for a taut denouement, and the tension doesn't let up till the final chilling page.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
From the popular British author comes this rather awkward tale of an ancient virus unleashed on the modern world, a virus that causes accelerated aging and, almost inevitably, death. Can scientists from around the world stop the virus before it wipes out the world's population? The story is plausible enough, and the science is detailed and realistic, but the presentation is clumsy, with cookie-cutter characters and dialogue that rarely rings true. Characters who are supposed to be American, for example, speak with distinctly British voices, and American idioms are not quite accurately rendered. The classic virus-on-the-rampage stories, such as Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain, catch the reader up in the tension. Ice Age, on the other hand, keeps readers at a distance, so they don't ever really care what happens to the players. The book is reminiscent of the big-budget disaster movies made in the 1970s: plenty of excitement, a large cast, and no real emotional involvement. Still, fans of imminent-apocalypse fiction should find enough here to keep them reading. David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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