THE ICE BREAKER
Book Details
Author(s)Rayford Hammond
ISBN / ASINB003U4WUVK
ISBN-13978B003U4WUV5
Sales Rank1,331,026
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A U.S. Navy Icebreaker participating in an Operation Deep Freeze deployment to Antarctica in the early 1960's provides the setting for this unique, fast-paced action-adventure/mystery.
Exciting and unusual shipboard operations set in enchanting imagery near the South Pole serve as a fascinating backdrop as intense personal conflict among some of the ship's officers escalates. Finally, a young navy lieutenant is court martialed for the alleged killing of his ship's tyrannical commanding officer.
Activities in and around this unique ship as she rams through the frozen Antarctica ice are graphically depicted during the first half of the book as relations between some of the junior officers and the ship's oppressive commander quickly become as chilly as the Antarctic air. After several tragedies aboard the ill-fated ship, the tension finally comes to a head when in a few blurred, flashing seconds the ship's captain disappears beneath the icy waters. Lieutenant Bob Stevens, the ships personable and competent First Lieutenant stands accused of pushing the captain overboard.
When the action shifts to the intense drama of the accused officer's court martial, the narrative is related primarily from the viewpoint of the peculiar, yet highly effective and likable defense counsel who must use all his technical skills and southern wiles in an attempt to attain an acquittal. The prosecuting attorney, a marine major appropriately known as Ice Man because of his cold, undeviating, and by-the-book methodology, provides a most formidable adversary.
Did the lieutenant push the icebreaker’s commanding officer overboard, or was he attempting to prevent the captain from falling? Several eyewitnesses will testify that he pushed the captain, yet an equal number will say that he attempted to save the man. Not even the frightened and confused lieutenant seems to know what happened during that fateful split-second just before the captain fell—or was pushed—overboard.
Several bizarre twists occur during the proceedings that will captivate the reader until the shocking, unexpected ending. The story also deals with relationships, especially between fathers and sons, thus suggesting other connotations for the term icebreaker.
List of Author's Books:
I Am the Wind
Rising to Sea Level
The Fixing Tree
The Gray Lady
The Ice breaker
The Swallows Know
The Tall Ship
The Ultimate List
Exciting and unusual shipboard operations set in enchanting imagery near the South Pole serve as a fascinating backdrop as intense personal conflict among some of the ship's officers escalates. Finally, a young navy lieutenant is court martialed for the alleged killing of his ship's tyrannical commanding officer.
Activities in and around this unique ship as she rams through the frozen Antarctica ice are graphically depicted during the first half of the book as relations between some of the junior officers and the ship's oppressive commander quickly become as chilly as the Antarctic air. After several tragedies aboard the ill-fated ship, the tension finally comes to a head when in a few blurred, flashing seconds the ship's captain disappears beneath the icy waters. Lieutenant Bob Stevens, the ships personable and competent First Lieutenant stands accused of pushing the captain overboard.
When the action shifts to the intense drama of the accused officer's court martial, the narrative is related primarily from the viewpoint of the peculiar, yet highly effective and likable defense counsel who must use all his technical skills and southern wiles in an attempt to attain an acquittal. The prosecuting attorney, a marine major appropriately known as Ice Man because of his cold, undeviating, and by-the-book methodology, provides a most formidable adversary.
Did the lieutenant push the icebreaker’s commanding officer overboard, or was he attempting to prevent the captain from falling? Several eyewitnesses will testify that he pushed the captain, yet an equal number will say that he attempted to save the man. Not even the frightened and confused lieutenant seems to know what happened during that fateful split-second just before the captain fell—or was pushed—overboard.
Several bizarre twists occur during the proceedings that will captivate the reader until the shocking, unexpected ending. The story also deals with relationships, especially between fathers and sons, thus suggesting other connotations for the term icebreaker.
List of Author's Books:
I Am the Wind
Rising to Sea Level
The Fixing Tree
The Gray Lady
The Ice breaker
The Swallows Know
The Tall Ship
The Ultimate List
