Jeff Buick, African Ice

African Ice

Jeff Buick

Leisure, Apr 2006, $6.99, 384 pp.

ISBN: 0843957204

She has the reputation of being a female Indiana Jones, which is why Gem-Star President Patrick Kerrigan hires Samantha Carlson to locate a diamond vein in the Ruwenzori Mountains in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has the location down to a seventy square mile radius, but his team vanished, which is not shocking, as the government is corrupt and the military is worse than the civilians.

Knowing all this and more, she still accepts the job. Travis McNeil and his men will protect her as she seeks the diamonds. Unknown to either the geologist or the bodyguard, is that Patrick has arranged with a local military officer and his troops to track them so that once the mission is achieved they will die. However, once the assault starts, Travis and his men win the day, but a deadlier team is on the way with another on standby.

AFRICAN ICE is the ultimate cat and mouse thriller, with Travis being Hans Solo, and Samantha Lara Croft. The storyline electrifies the audience with its non-stop action, reminiscent of the Indiana Jones' movies, but it also provides insight into the poverty of the people, and the corruption of the military and civil leaders in this poor African nation. Jeff Buick creates lead characters that readers will care about, as they go from one deadly scenario to the next, with the light at the end of the tunnel coming from the subsequent lethal fire they will end up in shortly.