Fire Ice
Chapter One
Off the Maine Coast, the Present
Leroy Jenkins was hauling in a barnacle-encrusted lobster
trap aboard his boat, The Kestrel, when he looked up and saw
the giant ship on the horizon. He gingerly extracted a fat pair of
angry crustaceans from the trap, pegged the claws and tossed the
lobsters into a holding tank, then he rebaited the trap with a fish
head, pushed the wire cage over the side and went into the pilothouse
for his binoculars. He peered through the lenses and silently
mouthed the word "Wow!"
The ship was huge. Jenkins examined the vessel from stem to
stern with an expert eye. Before retiring to take up lobster-fishing,
he had taught oceanography for years at the University of Maine, and
he had spent many summer breaks on survey ships-but this vessel
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