{"product_id":"2940045916554","title":"The Ice Cap and the Rift","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevised 2nd Edition of Book II in the Ancestor Series of adventure thrillers fom a \"Foreword Reviews,\" 1st Place Award Winning Author:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Comboquake rakes across the submerged twenty-five hundred mile ribbon of the Atlantic Ridge, threatening disaster on three continents. At the north end of the Ridge, a fifteen-mile long rift tears into Iceland’s largest ice cap, spewing a curtain of steam five hundred feet in the air. Advanced satellite imagery reveals the dissection of a large cavern eleven hundred feet down the ragged crevasse, containing objects and structures frozen in the ice that shouldn't be there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe UN’s Institute for the Study of Unusual Phenomena (ISUP) and its new director, John Henry Morgan, geologist, ex-marine, are cast into the aftermath of the largest single shift ever recorded in the Earth’s crust and the strange anomalies left in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it’s discovered the cavern was occupied 180,000 years ago and contains a perfectly preserved hi-tech habitat and a travel machine, ISUP’s benign scientific expedition to study the origin and contents of the cavern turns chaotic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFerreting out the existence and significance of the discoveries, nations and terrorists mount sophisticated operations to acquire technological treasures for their own purposes.\u003cbr\u003eThe ISUP organization finds itself at the convergence of clandestine assault from several fronts. Acts of deceit and violence cascade into escalating brutality. Lives are expendable, a scenario that has plagued the human race throughout the chronicles of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrantic action streams across the globe, crossing oceans and air lanes: Prague; London; New York; Washington, D.C.; Libya; France; Spain; Iceland; China. As factions grapple for power, survival of the ISUP scientists lies in their choices of whom to trust, how to utilize mysterious new technologies, and whether to seek assistance from an esoteric source claiming domicile in the Pleiades, a star cluster of the Taurus constellation.\u003cbr\u003e__________________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarshall Chamberlain weaves a magnificent adventure into plausible reality, transporting readers into unique realms of danger and suspense. Stalwart characters meet avarice and violence head-on in Book II of the Ancestor Series of adventure-thrillers. The Ice Cap and the Rift is spellbinding and scientifically mysterious.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marshall Chamberlain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122178965744,"sku":"2940045916554","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045916554_p0.jpg?v=1763686582","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045916554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}