Five years before the events taking place in the book engineer Eli Glinn led a team to southern Chile to retrieve a meteorite. A combination of a storm, an attack from a rogue ship captain and the strange behavior of the meteorite itself caused the ship to sink, killing most of the people on board. A working hypothesis was made that the meteorite was a spore for an alien life form.
In the present year, Eli Glinn recruits Gideon Crew to build and detonate a nuclear weapon under the sea in order to kill the alien life form that he is worried might be growing where the meteorite was dropped into the sea. A crew is assembled and board a ship bound for Chile. Undersea recovery efforts were able to obtain the sunken ship's black boxes and a video of the ship's last moments revealed that as the meteor hit the salty sea water it transformed into a different being. Further tests showed that while the alien life form was under the sea it also extended 2 miles under the sea bed. This gave it the potential to threaten the life of the entire planet earth if it wasn't destroyed.
Portions of the story seemed like science fiction with the alien controlling worms that infected the brains of most of the workers on the ship. With the advance of the worms there was a rush to detonate the bomb even though it was not large enough to reach beneath the seabed.
However, this was definitely a thriller. I was hooked from the first page and could not stop reading until I had finished the book in one sitting. Each chapter ended with enough suspense to keep me reading. The scientific rhetoric was minimal so that a layperson such as myself could easily read through the book.
I now feel the need to read The Ice Limit even though I already know how it will end. I am curious about any details of the earlier story that I may have missed.
Highly recommended.
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