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Ice Reich
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446607445
ISBN: 0446607444
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: February 01, 2000
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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Editorial Review:
It rises out of the cobalt sea like a dream: shimmering white peaks and fog-shrouded icebergs; blazing slabs of ice and vistas of windswept snow. . . . The year is 1938. As the world hurtles toward war, Antarctica is an empty frontier. But for one man and one woman, it's the place for a different kind of battle. Owen Hart is a Montana cowboy turned cold-weather bush pilot, a flyer recruited by Germany's fanatical new government. Greta Heinz is a biologist trapped in a loveless liaison with an SS officer. Far from the gathering storms of war in Europe, they are caught up in a scientific expedition and a quest to conquer Antarctica. But here, under the ice, a deadly discovery awaits, as Owen and Greta journey not only into the untouched depths of a frozen landscape, but into untold regions of courage and terror.
It rises out of the cobalt sea like a dream: shimmering white peaks and fog-shrouded icebergs; blazing slabs of ice and vistas of windswept snow. . . . The year is 1938. As the world hurtles toward war, Antarctica is an empty frontier. But for one man and one woman, it's the place for a different kind of battle. Owen Hart is a Montana cowboy turned cold-weather bush pilot, a flyer recruited by Germany's fanatical new government. Greta Heinz is a biologist trapped in a loveless liaison with an SS officer. Far from the gathering storms of war in Europe, they are caught up in a scientific expedition and a quest to conquer Antarctica. But here, under the ice, a deadly discovery awaits, as Owen and Greta journey not only into the untouched depths of a frozen landscape, but into untold regions of courage and terror.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An Entertaining Read if Not taken Too Seriously
William Dietrich was born in 1951 and grew up in Tacoma, WA. A journalism graduate of Western Washington University, he has spent most of his life in the Pacific Northwest, with briefer sojourns in Washington, D.C., and Boston. He has won numerous journalism awards. He is married, has two college-age daughters, and lives in Anacortes, WA.
I could not make my mind up about this book. Firstly because the author is a serious journalist and because of that are we to take the content ... Read More
Rating: - Another good read from William Dietrich
A US pilot gets recruited by German diplomat for an Antarctic expedition in a prewar 1938. The pilot falls in love in a German scientist and faces off against a SS officer. The expedition finds a deadly plague bacteria and an organism with antibiotic effects. The expedition ends with a conflict arrising between the invloved parties. Years later, near the end of the war, Nazis return to the island with the SS officer, the pilot and the scientist to retrieve the bacteria and use it to win the war. Here, ... Read More
Rating:  - Cold-hearted Nazis in Frozen Antartica
Because of his experience in flying in icy weather conditions, ordinary good-guy American Owen Hart is asked to serve as pilot for a German team on an expedition to Antarctica. Thinking he can keep himself uninvolved emotionally and politically, little does Hart know what he's getting himself into!
To begin with, he falls for the girlfriend of the fiendish Nazi Drexler, immediately setting himself up for problems. When they land on the Antacticic island, which landscape the author incredibly describes, ... Read More
Rating: - Ice Reich
THE BOOK WAS GREAT! Fiction mixed with non-fiction! The beginning of the book was slow, but when it progressed, I was unable to put it down! The book was SO good, that I lent it to my school-mates for them to read! I like how the book goes into detail...that is always a + in my mind!
Rating:  - Disappointing
No, no, no. This is NOT a rousing adventure: it's a good, quick read that ends of going flat real fast half-way through. It starts off entertaining enough - even a jovial, skirt-chasing Herrmann Goering makes an appearance - and the first expedition to Antartica keeps your interest. But then it's as if the author was under a rush to finish it, because it devolves into this strained romance that tries to be Hemingway. By the last fifty pages I was plowing through it just to be done with it. Such a shame: ... Read More
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