Beyond the Ice Limit

A Note to Our Readers

More years ago than we’d care to admit, we wrote a thriller titled The Ice Limit. It was about an expedition to the desolate wastes at the frozen tip of South America, with the goal of recovering the world’s largest meteorite.

The expedition did not go quite as planned. It was a dark story and the ending was rather grim and enigmatic. We believed at the time that no further explanation was required. As with the famous Twilight Zone episode, “To Serve Man,” there appeared to be only one possible outcome after the final page was turned.

However, we began to get letters and emails asking exactly what did happen after that final page. And demanding a sequel to the novel.

We thought such requests would die down over time. They did not. We continued to receive them until they totaled in the many thousands. Even today, at virtually every book signing we do, somebody asks us when we are finally going to write a sequel to The Ice Limit.

Eli Glinn was a character we first introduced in The Ice Limit, and he continued to appear in several of the books that followed. In the mysterious way that fictional characters sometimes take on lives of their own, Glinn too began to insist that we tell the rest of the story—he even worked behind the scenes, as it were, to make it happen. Glinn roped in Gideon Crew, our newer series character, in his obsession with the “meteorite.” That was when we realized our readers were right: the story and characters demanded a sequel. Once we understood that, we knew the time had come to set sail once again.

We did, however, take pains to ensure that this new book was not just a story for fans of The Ice Limit or Gideon Crew, but rather a stand-alone novel that anyone could enjoy, whether or not they had read any of our earlier fiction. We hope that, in retrospect now, you agree, and that you have enjoyed your fictional journey—whether for the first or the second time—to the Screaming Sixties of the South Atlantic…and beyond the Ice Limit.