Man on Ice

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Pub Date 01 Oct 2019 | Archive Date 31 Oct 2019

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Description

Special Agent Captain Rake Ozenna watches as a fleet of Russian military helicopters heads straight for his home, a remote Alaskan island with a population of just eighty.

What he doesn’t know yet is why.

Soon, however, he learns that Russia is playing a dangerous political game: in a daring act of provocation, it reclaims the American island as its own. Caught in the crosshairs of sabre-rattling big powers, Rake is determined to save his people and his island, even if it costs him his life.

Special Agent Captain Rake Ozenna watches as a fleet of Russian military helicopters heads straight for his home, a remote Alaskan island with a population of just eighty.

What he doesn’t know yet is...


Advance Praise

'Hawksley’s excellent idea is to move the battleground from Eastern Europe to the Arctic north. When a maverick Russian commander decides to occupy a tiny American island in the Bering Strait, there’s only one man who can prevent the situation from escalating into a nuclear war: Rake Ozenna of the elite Eskimo Scouts'
John Williams, Thriller of the Week – Mail on Sunday

'This one keeps you intrigued, ready for the gut punch…authentic settings, non-stop action'
Steve Berry

'Knuckle-whitening suspense, bloody violence, dirty tricks, and plenty of surprising twists make this a gripping, can't-put-it-down read'
EMILY MELTON, Booklist

'Hawksley, a foreign correspondent for the BBC, understands the backroom nature of international power and the nagging issue of ordinary folk who just don't recognize what's good for them'
Booklist

Praise for Humphrey Hawksley:

'High-stakes, high-octane thriller…my kind of book.'
LEE CHILD

'Humphrey Hawksley is one of only a handful of writers taking the thriller in important new directions'
CRAIG THOMAS

'Hawksley’s excellent idea is to move the battleground from Eastern Europe to the Arctic north. When a maverick Russian commander decides to occupy a tiny American island in the Bering Strait...


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ISBN 9781786894946
PRICE $14.00 (USD)
PAGES 224

Average rating from 6 members


Featured Reviews

Escalating tensions on the Russian - U.S. border

Captain Raymond "Rake" Ozenna is Eskimo from Little Diomede Island, Alaska and part of the Eskimo Scouts, deployed all over the world by the U.S. for use in winter locations.

He is bringing his fiancee, Dr. Carrie Walker, a trauma surgeon, home to meet the people he considers his family.

But after they arrive the island is taken over by Russian soldiers from Big Diomede Island, Russia. The 1867 treaty that finalized the Alaska Purchase put the dividing line between Russis and the U.S. equidistant between the two islands. Now it seems like Russia has an idea of taking the other island back.

Rake Ozenna escapes the Russian's clutches trying to stop this coup while Dr. Walker is left on Little Diomede treating a young native pregnant girl.

I enjoyed this thriller. Of course I enjoy many stories about Alaska, a place I love.

I notice this is book one in the Rake Ozenna series so I will be keeping my eyes open for future books in the series.

I received this book from Blackthorn Books through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.

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A well written thriller showing how dramatic events are never as straightforward as you may think and that as in real life politics always plays a part.
Unusual setting and u usual characters my only complaint is that I couldn’t quite time place it so it constantly felt a bit off for me. Could well be that it was my lack of imagination that was at fault

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