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A great roller coaster of a thriller. Scarecrow leads a crack team of Marines into Antarctica for what is believed to be a UFO buried beneath the ice. Before arriving there are several mysterious deaths and a French incursionary force to contend with, then the British SAS arrive followed by other foreign teams all set to kill for the secret UFO or else blow everyone and it up. It's a race against the elements, a race against time and a race against everyone who wants the UFO. What is the mystery of the UFO? Will the mysterious deaths be solved? Will Scarecrow and his team survive? This awesome book is hard to put down, so set aside a weekend and go for it!
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Relentless, classical in form, contemporary and unpretentious.
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Matthew Reilly
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 462
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Paperbacks, Ullstein Tb, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781740308939
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