Fire and Ice
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ISBN: 0380975661 / Publisher: Avon Books, April 1998
A debut thriller sends a humanitarian doctor working on the coast of Southeast Asia on a treacherous odyssey to rescue members of his family, who are kidnapped on the high seas by a group of cold-blooded assassins hired by a twisted millionaire
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For more than a decade, the world's oceans have been home to Michael and Sarah Stone - and the only home their eleven-year-old daughter Ronnie has ever known. Doctors and idealists, the Stones have forsaken dry land and a comfortable life to live and work aboard their thirty-eight-foot yacht Veronica - sailing to remote and inaccessible places to offer medical aid to those in need.A gargantuan commercial vessel - a Liquid Natural Gas carrier - appears where it has no business being, radioing a medical distress call that the Stones cannot ignore. Left behind to tend to an ailing islander on a deserted atoll in the middle of nowhere, Michael watches as Sarah and Ronnie set off to answer the ship's call - first with curiosity, then with horror. For as he looks on helplessly, Veronica is hauled onto the deck of the hulking metal behemoth, which then steams away with his wife and daughter aboard.Stranded and alone - with only a primitive, damaged canoe at his disposal and no navigational equipment except the stars - Michael Stone must now do the impossible. He must find and rescue his kidnapped family, lost somewhere on the vast and merciless ocean. Meanwhile, on board an enormous, seagoing prison, Sarah and Ronnie must somehow struggle to survive the cruel whims of their captor.
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