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Prison of Ice (1976 original edition)(Revised and reissued as Icebound under

his own name (1995))[Version 2.0 by BuddyDk – October 29 2003][Easy read, easy

print][Completely new scan]Suddenly the ice opened in front of Harry, a

zigzagging crack as wide as his hand.He staggered a few steps and leaped

across the crack even as it widened. He fell on the far side and rolled away

from the treacherous ice.Behind him the edge of the crevasse broke into

enormous pieces.The ice shivered under him.He didn't know if he was safe

yet.Probably not.The lip of the chasm began to tumble into the pit.He was on

his knees. He clawed at the ice, pulled himself a few more feet toward safety.

He glanced back to see how far he'd gone.Its rotary engine still humming, the

snowmobile slid into the chasm. The ten gallons of petrol in the main and

auxiliary tanks exploded. Flames licked high into the wind. Orange-red

phantoms shimmered briefly in the milky ice; then the fire puffed out, and

darkness took command. . . .

PRISONOFICEDavid AxtonA FAWCETT CREST BOOKFawcett Books, Greenwich,

Connecticut

PRISON OF ICETHIS BOOK CONTAINS THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL HARDCOVER

EDITION.A Fawcett Crest Book reprinted by arrangement with J. B. Lip-pincott

0-449-23345-6All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any

resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.Printed in

the United States of America10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Considering the identities of the author and editor,this book can be for no

one else butWinona Garbrick

PRISONOFICE

Before . . .

From The New York Times:(1)POLAR ICE PUREST WATER INTHE WORLDMOSCOW, Feb.

10—Russian scientists have found that the water which constitutes the polar

ice cap has a far lower bacteria count than any water man now uses to drink

and to irrigate crops, a discovery that makes this vast frozen reservoir a

valuable resource of the future.Because tapping the polar ice cap would be

cheaper than constructing any desalinization plant yet developed, especially

since the water would not have to be purified, many Russian re-searchers think

tens of thousands of acres of farmland will be irrigated with melted icebergs

in the next decade . . .(2)NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING COUPLEBELIEVE ICEBERGS

COULDPROVIDE FRESH WATERBOSTON, Mass., Sept. 5—Speak-ing before a convention

of en-vironmental engineers, Dr. Harold Carpenter said today that chronic

shortages of water in California,Europe and other regions could be solved by

the controlled melting of ice-bergs towed south from the Arctic. Dr.

Carpenter's wife, Dr. Rita Carpenter, said the concerned nations should pool

the capital for the necessary research and development—an investment that

would, she said, “be repaid a hundred-fold within ten years.”According to the

Carpenters, the basic concept is simple. A large iceberg would be “blown

loose” from the edge of the icefield and allowed to move south in natural

currents. Later, enormous steel towing cables would be affixed to the ice much

the same as a barbed harpoon is shot into a whale. A trawler would then tow

the ice to a conversion facility at the shore near thirsty farmland. “Because

both the North Atlantic and North Pacific are cold bodies of water, only about

20% of the ice would melt before it could be converted to water at the shore

and piped to the drought-stricken farms,” Dr. Harold Carpenter said.The

Carpenters both said that no one could be certain the idea was workable.

“There are still a great many problems to overcome,” Rita Carpenter said.

“Extensive research on the polar ice cap . . .”(3)DROUGHT AFFECTSCALIFORNIA

CROPSSACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 20-State Department of Agricultureshortages may

have caused as much as a ten-million-dollar loss in second-season crops as

diverse as oranges, cantaloupes, lettuce . . .(4)SUFFICIENT RELIEF

FOODUNAVAILABLE FOR THOUSANDSSTARVING IN DROUGHTSUNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct.

18—The director of the United Nations Emergency Relief Organiza-tion said here

that poor harvests in both the United States and Europe have made it

impossible for drought-stricken Africans and Asians to pur-chase grain and

produce from the usually food-rich Western nations. Already, more than 200,000

people have died in . . .(5)SPECIAL U.N. FUNDESTABLISHED TO SENDSCIENTISTS TO

POLARICE CAPUNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 6—Eleven members of the United Nations

today contributed money to a unique fund which will pay for a series of

scientific experiments on the polar ice cap. The primary intent of the project

will be to study the feasibility of towing huge icebergs south, where they

could be tapped for the irrigation of crops.“It might sound like science

fic-tion,” said one British official. “But since the early 1960s most

environ-mental specialists have come to see the very real potential.”If such a

scheme is workable, the major food-producing nations might never suffer bad

harvests again. Al-though the icebergs could not be towed into the warm seas

of southern Asia and Africa, the entire world would profit by the insured good

harvests of the few countries the project would directly benefit . . .(6)TEAM

OF U.N. SCIENTISTSESTABLISHES RESEARCHSTATION ON ARCTIC ICEFIELDTHULE,

Greenland, Sept. 28— This morning a team of scientists under the direction of

Dr. Harold Carpenter landed on the Arctic ice cap between Greenland and

Spitsbergen, Norway. They began construction of a research station two miles

from the edge of the icefield where they will conduct United Nations-funded

studies for at least nine months . . .(7)ARCTIC EXPEDITION TO “BLOWLOOSE” A

PIECE OF POLAR ICECAP TOMORROWTHULE, Greenland, Jan. 14— At midnight tomorrow

scientists at theUnited Nations' “Edgeway Station” will detonate a series of

explosive devices to separate a half-mile-square iceberg from the edge of the

winter icefield, just 350 miles off the north-east coast of Greenland. Two

UNGY trawlers equipped with electronic tracking gear are waiting 230 miles to

the south, where they will monitor the progress of the “bugged” iceberg.In an

experiment designed to determine if Atlantic currents change substantially in

northern regions dur-ing the severe arctic winter . . .

One: Snare

11:57The heated bit of the power drill chewed deep into the ice Slush churned

out of the hole, sluiced across the crusted snow and refroze in seconds. The

bit was out of sight now and the steel shank had also disappeared into the

four inch-diameter bore.Harry Carpenter, watching the drill bite deeper and

deeper into the ice, had a premonition of disaster. Al-though, as a scientist,

he respected the tools of logic method and reason, Carpenter had learned never

to discount a hunch. Especially not out here on the icefield where anything

could happen—and usually did. He could not understand the source of his

uneasiness—unless it was the possibility that the explosive charge might

detonate prematurely, right now, in their faces. There was little chance of

that. Nevertheless . . .Peter Johnson, the American electronics engineer who

doubled as demolitions expert, switched off the drill and stepped back from

it. In his bulky white thermal suit and fur-lined hood, he resembled a polar

bear—except for his dark brown face.Claude Jobert shut off the portable

generator which supplied power to the drill.As the afternoon began, the three

men were pre-paring to lower the last of the one-hundred-pound ex-plosive

charges into the ice. This was the sixtieth bomb they had handled since

yesterday morning, and they were uneasily aware that they were standing on

enough high-yield plastic explosives to destroy them in an apocalyptic

instant.If they died here, Harry thought, well . . . the ice cap was a model

graveyard, utterly lifeless. Ghostly bluish-white plains led off in every

direction, somber and moody during this season of nearly constant darkness,

brief twilight and perpetual overcast. Visibility was fair because this was

the time of day when a vague crescent of sunlight painted the horizon. But

there was not much to see. The only points of elevation were the jagged

pressure ridges and hundreds of house-sized slabs of ice that had popped from

the field and stood on end like gigantic tombstones.Pete Johnson joined

Carpenter and Jobert in front of a pair of specially rebuilt snowmobiles. “The

shaft's twenty-eight yards deep. One more extension for the bit and the job's

done.”“Thank God!” Jobert shivered as if his thermal suit provided no

protection whatsoever. In spite of the trans-parent film of lanolin petroleum

jelly that protected the exposed portions of his face from frostbite, he was

pale and drawn. “We'll make it back to base camp tonight Think of that! I

haven't been warm since we left.”Ordinarily, Jobert did not complain. He was a

jovial and energetic little man. At a glance he seemed fragile. That wasn't

the case. At five-seven and a hundred and thirty pounds, he was lean, wiry,

hard. He had a mane of white hair, a leathery face and bright blue eyes as

clear as those of a child. Carpenter had never seen hatred or anger in those

eyes—nor, until yesterday, had he seen self-pity in them.Since they had left

the comfort of Edgeway Station, Jobert had been neither jovial nor energetic.

At fifty-nine he was the oldest member of the expedition, eighteen years older

than Carpenter. That was nearly the outer limit for a scientist working in

this brutal climate.Although he was a fine Arctic geologist, this would be his

last trip onto the icefield. From now on, his work would be done in

laboratories and behind typewriters, far from the rigors of the ice.Maybe,

Harry thought, he's not bothered by the cold so much as by the knowledge that

this work has grown too demanding for him. How will I feel when I've got to

face the same truth?Pete Johnson said, “It's snowing.”Even as the black man

spoke, Harry saw the dime-sized flakes.Jobert frowned. “We weren't due for

snow until this evening.”The trip out from Edgeway Station—four air miles to

the northeast, seven miles by snowmobile past ridges and deep chasms—had not

been difficult. However, a bad storm could make the return journey impossible.

Visibility would decrease to zero. They could easily get lost because of

compass distortion. And if their snowmobiles ran out of fuel, they would

freeze to death, for even their thermal suits would be insufficient protection

against prolonged exposure to the murderous cold that came with a

blizzard.Studying the sky, Carpenter said, “This might be a local squall.”“You

said the same thing last week,” Johnson re-minded him. “As a geophysicist, you

deserved the Nobel. As a meteorologist—”“I'm a bust. So we'd better finish

this job quickly.”“Like yesterday.”Johnson freed the drill from the shank of

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