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by Tom Clancy (Author) "THEY HEARD THE COPTER LONG BEFORE IT CAME INTO sight, cresting the frozen peaks of Olympus on a southerly course toward Asgard ..." (more)
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Unspoiled. Uninhabited. Under attack...

On the wind-swept, Ice-covered continent of Antartica, Roger Gordian's UpLink Technologies has established a scientific research facility called Cold Corners. But its testing of potential robotic landing craft for use on Mars is disrupted when one of the rovers disappears -- along with the repair team sent out after it.

Fear of discovery has prompted a renegade consortium -- that is illegally using Antartica as a nuclear waste dump -- to wipe out the UpLink base. Now, the men and women of Cold Corners have only themselves to rely on as the consortium mounts its decisive strike against the ice station -- and the final sunset plunges them into the total darkness of a polar winter. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Enthusiastically written, but..., Jun 19 2003
By Ufowriter "Ufowriter" (Eastern England, as usual!) - See all my reviews
Tom Clancy, a world class adventure and military writer really vrought home how dangerous military operations are in extremely cold places, especially Antarctica. It is a medium sized book, but it sadly lacks the common twists and turns that become of a world class thriller such as this one. In a nutshell, the US military are experimenting with engineering and technologies so that if they want to, one day, they could work on Planet Mars. But, leading entreupeneurs want it a different way, and boy are they anarchists? A man who is dealing black market artworks is making money: a lot of money: and is funding the people who want to isolate the military into not going anywhere near Antarctica. With the unearned money, they buy nuclear waste from Britain, planting it around the site so that the personnel get dosed up with clinically high amounts of radiation. But all is not as it seems, and Tom Clancy, why does he have to always end without twists in the tale? Besides from that, it's a 'not bad' sort of book, but the story could easily be improved with a little more art and affection: more twists and more turns. I'll award two, perhaps three stars.
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3.0 out of 5 stars In the middle is no where for Clancy to be, Jul 13 2002
By John Harwell (Grove City, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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A 3-star rating for most writers is an accomplishment. Anything with Clancy's name on it implies, at least, tacit approval from Clancy. Since this was actually written by someone else (as a number of Clancy created series are), it would appear that Clancy has begun to care more for the money his name makes than the readers who trust his name. I am disappointed with Clancy. In fairness, though, the book does have good technical facts and plenty of action. The characters, however, appear to be good generic cut-outs.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Hey...It's A Good Book To Read To Cool Down A Hot Summer Day, Jun 5 2002
By "pdquick" (Tampa, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
Yep, it's not of the same caliber that we'd expect from Tom Clancey. Maybe the reason is because Tom Clancey didn't write it. It is, though, an entertaining book that doesn't take a lot of thought. Kind of like watching a James Bond movie...lot of thrill and action...not a lot of need for grey matter.

This is the perfect book to take to the beach or summer get away. Since it take place in the cold depth of Antartica...it's a wonderful diversion from staring at an overheated thermometer measuring summer temperatures.

Characters are minimally developed. Action is abundant. The story is just gripping enough to keep the reader interested.

It'll never win a writing award...but then it probably wasn't intended to.

A great book for light summer reading.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Surprised that Clancy would put his name on this
The cover loudly proclaims "Tom Clancy's Power Plays", yet this book was neither written by Clancy, nor probably even reviewed by him before publication, given the... Read more
Published on Mar 14 2002 by dbeekman

2.0 out of 5 stars Huh?!
This is the first book in the series that I have read, and all I can imagine is that 1) the others are better, and 2) this book was tying up loose ends from previous books. Read more
Published on Feb 13 2002 by A Doctor in Ann Arbor

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing at best
A great Rx for insomnia. The only reason I finished reading the book was that I was hopeful it would get better - wrong. Read more
Published on Feb 2 2002 by J M T

3.0 out of 5 stars What You Would Expect
Nobody picking up this latest installment of the Power Plays series truly believes that it has been penned by Tom Clancy himself, even the cover clearly credits the author, Jerome... Read more
Published on Jan 28 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars so-so
Agree with the other reviews......No, it's not WRITTEN by Tom Clancy. Liked the plot, but too many characters that are never really developed, relationships left unexplained and... Read more
Published on Jan 27 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars [Bad]
What a total disappointment. The descriptive narratives where too long and in some cases totally irrelevant. Read more
Published on Jan 9 2002 by joshbrim

2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to Clancy standard
The plot was lost in the excessive descriptive narratives. It was not up to the standard of Clancy's books nor even the standard of the others in the Power Plays series... Read more
Published on Jan 3 2002 by sbeisser

2.0 out of 5 stars COLD WAR
Obviously not one of Clancy's best. Preisler is not a Clancy. Story dragged due to much descriptive narrative, lacking in the usual person to person interplay I expect from Clancy... Read more
Published on Dec 26 2001 by L. N. LAINE

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