Publisher's Synopsis
Filled with all the hair-raising action and endless imagination that are Cussler's hallmarks, FIRE ICE is a dazzling thriller from the grandmaster of adventure fiction. Kurt Austin, NUMA Special Assignments team leader, and his colleague Joe Zavala are used to battling against eco-extortionists and mad empire builders, but they have never faced a menace like this one. In the heart of the old Soviet Union, a mining tycoon has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already shaky Russian government - and U.S. opposition doesn't bother him one bit. A little crisis of their own should distract the Americans for a while, and he knows just the thing.
