Your Black hole of death, destruction and mayhem.

This is one of those daring-do, action packed, impossible thrillers which still has the power to entertain. The synopsis gives an over full description of what to expect as far as the story goes so no need to rehearse that any further. The writing is of it's genre, and, like the main characters, somewhat cliche in use of language, as in 'Failure was not an option' and 'Multi million dollar killing machine'. But this does not distract from the enjoyable interaction between two of them, Sam and Jack, nor the 'nasty Nazi' images.

Sent in the singularly unpleasant environments (mostly) of the ice cold Antarctic sea, a submarine or beneath ice, the story cannot help but be chilling (sorry!); throw in past and present Nazi ambition, a carefully protected super weapon, a world wide super power, nuclear misiles, advice on how best to hurt people in close combat, friendship, fear and betrayal, and lots more, it becomes a fast and furious (sometimes for the protagonists, literally) action packed battle for survival, both personally and for the future of the world. Great fun and, read by Gary Tiedemann, a pleasure to hear. This narrator gave a fine performance, each character given their own differentiated voice and the text read with understanding and just enough emotion.

Certainly not fine literature, but not bad, a good plot, unusual and quick to read. One major problem with this audio version, however, is that, especially in the latter part, many of the chapters are very short and, given that the telling of the story moves through different places across the earth and jumps between the years 1945 and 2017, the introductory information of where and when this part is to take place, can be longer than the chapter itself ( as in Audible section 61, it takes up 21 of the 48 seconds, and in 63, it consumes 19 out of 24 secs.). This probably would not matter in a print or ebook, but in an audiobook, even one as well performed as this is, it distracts from the suspense of the story. A small matter, however.

I was fortunate in being freely gifted a complimentary copy of Ice Fortress, by the rights holder, at my request via Audiobook Boom. Thank you. I would certainly recommend it to anyone who enjoys action thrillers and doesn't mind suspending disbelief. It was certainly intriguing, and I look forward to the next book in the series, Black Ice.

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