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death. Hensleigh, Montana and two other Marines, Gant and Santa Cruz, are sent down to where the diving team vanished. While alone, Schofield is shot and killed. He later wakes up, found to have been accidentally resurrected by his attacker, and is in the care of scientist James Renshaw, the believed killer of one of the other scientists at Wilkes. Watching a video of Schofield's death, they see the attacker and discover it to be one of Schofield's men, Snake. The two capture Snake before he is able to kill the wounded Mother.
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and decide to flee the station. During the escape via stolen vehicles, Schofield and Renshaw's is pushed off a cliff, Schofield's close friend Book and the step-daughter of Sarah Hensleigh, Kirsty, are captured, while Rebound escapes with four of the scientists. Schofield manages to destroy a French
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Meanwhile in the United States, Andrew Trent and Pete Cameron meet, Cameron being a news reporter and Trent being a former Marine using the alias of Andrew Wilcox to avoid being found by the U.S military who a few years back had tried to kill him. They hear the distress call from Schofield and Trent
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Schofield decides to send a team down to find an object below the ice where the diving team was going. Later, Samurai is found strangled, leaving the only people he trusts to be one of the scientists, Sarah Hensleigh and another soldier named Montana as he was with them at the time of Samurai's
51: 267:. Schofield returns to the station and manages to kill all of the SAS and Snake, and save Kirsty. Schofield receives a message from Trent with a list of members of a secret service known as the Intelligence Convergence Group (ICG) which includes Snake and Montana. 274:. Schofield and the two others arrive and Hensleigh reveals herself to be an ICG agent, but is soon killed by a wounded Gant. Remembering the station is about to be destroyed, Schofield, Gant, Renshaw, Kirsty and her pet 263:
submarine and he and Renshaw begin their journey back towards it. Meanwhile, the SAS Brigadier Trevor Barnaby kills the two remaining French scientists and feeds Book to a pod of
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Gant and her team find what appears to be an alien ship, but which turns out to be a spy plane. Montana kills Santa Cruz, but is killed by mutated
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who has never failed a mission. Killed by Schofield when he shoots out one of the windows of the diving bell, causing the diving bell to
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where they are nearly killed by an ICG agent before being saved by Andrew Trent, Pete and Allison Cameron, and the captain of the
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After a diving team at Wilkes Ice Station is killed, the station sends out a distress signal. A team of
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This article is about the 1998 novel by Matthew Reilly. For the novel by Alistair MacLean, see
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realizes that what happened to him was happening to Schofield.
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Index

List of research stations in the Arctic
Research stations in Antarctica
Ice Station Zebra (novel)
Fletcher's Ice Island

Matthew Reilly
Shane Schofield
Techno-thriller novel
1998
Pan Macmillan
Australia
Paperback
ISBN
0-7329-0956-2
OCLC
39079754
LC Class
Area 7
Australian
thriller
Matthew Reilly
audio drama
Adelaide Fringe Festival
United States Force Recon Marines
Shane Schofield
SAS
killer whales
elephant seals
fur seal
USS Wasp

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