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This according to the authors is a follow up to a standalone book they wrote in 2001 entitled
The Ice Limit. Readers felt the story was unfinished so they decided that Gideon Crew would make a perfect character to carry out the remainder of the mission...that at the close of the first book was just to rescue and study the 25,000 ton meteorite. Today the mission is to kill whatever it is before it destroys life on Earth.
The book is at times violent...with equal parts of science and even a little romance... but like all books by this duo...it is exciting and intriguing,with some of the best storytelling you have ever been privileged to read.