Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child was a good fast adventure thriller. It only took me a couple of nights to read. The plot was very similar to Relic, Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston’s most famous book/movie.
The story revolves around a group of scientists researching global warming at a mothballed USAF radar station in the Arctic. The scientists discover a creature in an ice cave. The sponsors of the expedition, a media conglomerate, immediately send a production crew to create a live TV special of the creature being unfrozen from the ice. Before the creature can be revealed to the world, it comes alive and of course starts preying on the scientists and production crew in a trapped environment during a blizzard. I didn’t see that coming. :-)
While the story line is pretty predictable except for the typical Mr. Child zinger at the end. This book was more forumla than previous books as you know that any character who has not been developed earlier and starts a chapter is about to endup in harms way. The story was interesting in the aspect that no one character was really focused on or the center of the story. I liked the concept of the action happening in an abandoned DEW line radar station. It would be cool to visit one if there really are any non commissioned stations.
All in all, Terminal Freeze is a good read and beats the normal drivel shown on TV. But, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the book made into a movie as that production values would be pretty low since the story takes place in a limited environment.
