Clive Cussler: FIRE ICE **Signed/Limited Edition HC/Slipcased

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Clive Cusslerand Paul Kemprecos FIRE ICE Aliso Viejo, CA: James A. Cahill, 2002. Deluxe edition: of 600 total copies, # 358 /552 numbered copies signed by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos and offered for sale. New and unread, a fine copy in quarter leatherette and marbled paper over boards, sans jacket as issued. In matching leatherette slipcase. A beautiful production. This addition to the Kurt Austin series has the men from NUMA ([National] Underwater & Marine Agency) team up with former KGB spies to face down a Russian mobster with czarist aspirations and a zealot's hatred for the "corruption and materialism" of the Western lifestyle. The NUMA research vessel Argo is in the Black Sea for a PR jaunt when Austin spots the overdue TV crew being chased down an island beach by mounted Cossacks. Austin learns from his old KGB Cold War adversary Vladimir Petrov that the island is a mothballed submarine base commandeered by paranoid mobster Mikhail Razov (employer of the Cossacks), a billionaire who built Ataman Industries by taking over utilities and mines sold by the state. Razov claims descent from the Romanovs and is plotting to assume the throne. Meanwhile, when a U.S. Navy sub goes missing and a mysterious tidal wave swamps a Maine coastal town, the NUMA team figures out that Ataman is mining "fire ice" unstable and explosive solid read more