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443 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1998
"I'll get to the end of this chapter and then I'll go and do X"but damn it, every chapter finished on such an adrenaline high, I simply had to read the next one to find out what happened!
"International alliances are not about friendship. They are about advantage. If friendship brings advantage, then friendship is desirable. If friendship does not bring advantage, then perhaps merely civil relations may be all that is necessary."Schofield decides to send a marine dive team of three down below the ice to find the supposed alien spacecraft. They are also joined by one of the scientists from Wilkes Station. But all hell breaks loose once they’re gone. One of the two injured marines is killed, Schofield himself is shot and left for dead, and the second injured marine is also set upon. There is a traitor in Schofield’s team, a member of the Intelligence Convergence Group (ICG), whose sole purpose is to infiltrate elite American military units to keep tabs on them and make sure they’re doing what they’re supposed to be doing. Once the job is complete however, the ICG infiltrator is then tasked with “erasing” or wiping out the unit such that no knowledge about the assignment is leaked.
"Ice Station was a direct response to Hollywood action movies. I figured that when you make a movie, you are limited by your budget. Put simply, it costs big dollars to make big action scenes. But when you write a book, you can create the wildest and biggest action scenes you like and it doesn’t cost you a cent. The only limit is the limit of your imagination!"Life hasn't always been happy for Matthew. In early December 2011, while Reilly was in South Australia on a book tour promoting Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves, his wife Natalie, who had suffered from anorexia and depression, committed suicide. Matthew could not write for a very long time following this.