Ice Reich Author:William Dietrich The terrifically quirky start of a speed-read action adventure in exotic locales with fascinating scientific facts dips too soon into breathless romance to achieve a clear voice. The result: a cinematically layered novel with an identity crisis. Bush pilot Owen Hart, an early failed Antarctic expedition member, is recruited by German diplomat Ot... more »to Kohl as pilot/consultant for a prewar 1938 Nazi expedition (sponsored by Goring himself) to Antarctica in search of the natural resources needed for the war effort. Hart falls for SS officer Jurgen Drexler's girlfriend, biologist Greta Heinz, and the dramatic potential of a trip on an air carrier, facing down Norwegian whalers amid an iceberg-bobbing sea, is undermined by the adolescent antics that he and Jurgen perform for Greta's benefit. The discovery of a deadly plague bacterium and a nearby organism with antibiotic effects leads to Hart's separation from the Nazis and his capture and forced return to the island with Jurgen and Greta near the war's end to retrieve the plague germ as a last-ditch super weapon to save the Reich. With Hart's smarts, Greta's pluck and the help of Antarctica's denizens, they strive to outwit a submarine full of stormtroopers in the desperate finale. Dietrich won a Pulitzer for his science writing on the Exxon Valdez episode; any prize for his fiction, however, are still on ice. Audio rights to Time Warner.« less
Set in Antarctica during the 2nd World War. An exciting story of the Nazi's search for a terrifying new plague and the efforts of a lone American pilot and his German girl friend's attempt to stop them.
Into The Ice
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. Antaretica is an empty frontier. But for one man and one woman, it's the place for a different kind of battle.
Into The Fire
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. Together, far fromt he gathering storms of war in Europe they are caught up in a scientific expedition and a aquest to conquer Antaretica. 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 passion, courage and terror.