02339cam a2200277 4500 759133950 TxAuBib 20160613120000.0 160601s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781455566136 lg. print $29.00 1455566136 lg. print $29.00 KyBuM KyBuM TxGR TxAuBib Preston, Douglas J. Beyond the ice limit [Large Type Book] : a Gideon Crew novel / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. 1st large print ed. New York, NY : Grand Central Pub., 2016. 518 p. (large print) ; 24 cm. "That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking--along with its unique cargo--to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed. But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space. Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface--and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon's expertise with nuclear weapons. But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the 'meteorite' has a mind of its own--and it has no intention of going quietly..."--From the publisher's web site. 20160613. Human-alien encounters Fiction. Antarctic Ocean Fiction. Adventure stories. Science fiction. Child, Lincoln. RV8