from SMU, and served as an officer with the U.S. No fan of the genre can afford to overlook this bombshell.”Ī native Texan, Payne Harrison admits to having a "jaded past" as a newspaper reporter. air attack on the Tbilisi and the Russian undersea riposte are masterpieces of combat fiction. Harrison's depiction of clandestine operations under Antarctic conditions and his narrations of the U.S. Yet Thunder of Erebus succeeds above all as an action novel. And Harrison effectively marshals a large cast of characters, among them Dana Harrow, the female geologist who discovers Erebus's secret and Marine general Myron Tharp and Navy pilot Blackjack Pershing, both interesting variations on familiar stereotypes. His technologies are convincingly extrapolated from existing weapons systems. Harrison (Storming Intrepid) supplies a plausible motive for renewed Soviet-American conflict. seems on the verge of a low-cost, high-tech victory when Soviet cruise-missile torpedoes drastically change the balance of forces and Mount Erebus, a long-dormant Antarctic volcano, comes to life. Trouble begins when a reorganized Soviet Confederation sends an elite strike force, including the supercarrier Tbilisi, to the South Pole. But the graser requires a rare element, and the only sizable deposit is in Antarctica. The ``graser,'' or ground laser, provides the destruction of a nuclear blast without the fallout. Publisher’s Weekly Full Review: “In the near-future of this techno-thriller, American scientists have developed a new superweapon. ![]() No fan of the genre can afford to overlook this bombshell.”Īntarctica – blazingly cold and remote - where a joint U.S.-Russian scientific team makes an astounding discovery deep below the Ross Ice Shelf in the shadow of the Mount Erebus volcano.Īt stake is nothing less than a raw material for a new technology that will give the victorious superpower the ultimate weapon to render ballistic missiles obsolete.įailure is not an option for either side, so to secure this material the superpowers unleash their arsenals of techno-weapons - in the air, on the ground, and at sea in the largest naval engagement since the Battle of Midway. “Thunder of Erebus succeeds above all as an action novel. ![]() THE FIRE & ICE OF TEHNO-WAR IN THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH By the New York Times Bestselling Author, Payne Harrison
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