This is a "guy" book with apologies to any women who might be reading this. When a wife comes into the library looking for a book for her husband because they're going on vacation this is the kind of book they generally choose: simple, with lots of action, and no distracting relationship stuff. Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler fit the bill to, but a Matthew Reilly book is like a Tom Clancy book on steroids. And, boy are they fun to read.
Ice Station starts with the discovery of what might be an alien spacecraft below a United States research station in Antarctica. A distress call is sent out and a U.S. Marine force led by Captain Shane Schofield responds only to find personnel from a French base nearby already at the U.S. Station aiding the survivors. Only the French personnel are elite commandos after the spaceship, and things just contiue to heat up from there. This author hooked me with book.
