02524cam a2200397 i 4500 287741221 TxAuBib 20170320120000.0 160127s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015050544 9781455525867 1455525863 TxAuBib rda Preston, Douglas J. Beyond the ice limit / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. First edition: May 2016. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2016. ℗2016. 375 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now ... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed. But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space. Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface-and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon's expertise with nuclear weapons. But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the "meteorite" has a mind of its own and it has no intention of going quietly .. 20170320. Authors, American Maine. Human-alien encounters Fiction. Fiction Thrillers. Human-alien encounters. Antarctic Ocean Fiction. Antarctic Ocean. Adventure fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Science fiction. Fiction. Child, Lincoln, author.