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Martin Roy Hill is the author of the Linus Schag, NCIS, thrillers, the Peter Brandt thrillers, DUTY: Suspense and Mystery Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, Polar Melt: A Novel, and EDEN: A Sci-Fi Novella. His latest Linus Schag thriller, The Butcher's Bill, received the Best Mystery/Suspense Novel of 2017 from the Best Independent Book Awards, the Clue Award for Best Suspense Thriller, the Silver Medal for Thrillers from the Readers Favorite Book Awards, and the award for Adult Fiction from the California Author Project. His latest Peter Brandt mystery, The Fourth Rising, was named Best Mystery of 2020 by the Best Independent Books Awards, 2020 Best Crime Thriller by the American Fiction Awards, and the 2020 Clue Award for Best Suspense Thriller by the Chanticleer International Book Awards.
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The research vessel ‘Franklin’ spots its deep submergence vehicle surfacing from the Arctic Ocean after two days without contact and finds it empty. Then, all contact is lost with the ‘Franklin’. A special Coast Guard team is sent to investigate and they board a deserted ship. The DSV was spying on a Russian secret research platform plagued by unknown faults that had no rational explanation. The Russians had captured the ‘Franklin’s’ crew and then killed them to prevent the Americans from finding a mysterious object resting on the bottom of the sea, one not of earthly design. Determined to keep their research secret, the Russians decide to eliminate the Coast Guard team, but the attack is repulsed. Wanting to recover the strange object for themselves, the Americans decide to destroy the platform, which leads to an intriguing climax.
Polar Melt is a fast-paced, action-filled novel that takes readers on a wild ride of adventures, culminating in a haunting ending that leaves lots of room for pondering if man is really alone in the cosmos. Martin Roy Hill’s technical mastery of military technology and procedures, with a tantalizing hint of something unearthly, provides a firm framework for the characters, supported by some very good writing and dialogue. The book does not delve deeply into its characters, but readers are given enough to bond with those who make the decisions, whether American or Russian. The appearance of a strange Inuit woman aboard the ‘Franklin’ and the Russian platform adds an air of mystery until the very end. Polar Melt compels readers to keep going until the final page, leaving them satisfied.
