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Title: African Ice

Author: Jeff Buick

Narrator: Phoebe Zimmermann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-13

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A diamond formation worth untold millions, hidden deep in the jungles of Africa. Many have tried to find it. All have failed. Can Samantha Carlson do the impossible? The president of Gem Star thinks so when he hires the geologist to lead a team into the Democratic Republic of Congo and return with the diamonds location. Gem Star has sent other teams in to find the formation. None made it out alive. Samantha was aware the odds were against her when she accepted the mission. Shes taken hazardous jobs before, and she knows what shes doing. But Samanthas expedition is about to turn into an all-out battle for survival when theres another team on a mission in the jungle. Their goal: kill Samantha.

Members Reviews:

Great read! I read this book 5 years ago ...

Great read! I read this book 5 years ago and couldn't put it down. I recently purchased this book for a friend to read over the summer.

Great Read

This book was one of our book club reads and it was wonderful. We had the honour of having Jeff Buick attend our meeting and what an interesting person. I am now going to be purchasing his other books. Even my husband could not get his nose out of this book.

Not much to it, when all is said...

Sorry to all the folks who liked this one, but it fails with me...

A few reasons:

1) As one reviewer pointed out, the author seems to have limited knowledge of weapons (as any ex-military spec-ops type guy will confirm). For example, at one point (in Cairo, I beleive) McNeil and his remaining SEAL partner are armed with "GLock A-17's" and McNeil at one point "flips the safety off" or some such. Well, the Glock family of pistols have what Glock calls a Safe Action, in the trigger assembly. There is no 'safety lever' or button to switch off per se, as in a Beretta 92F or a 1911 .45...I've heard there IS a safety that can be special-ordered from Glock in Austria, but from what I've heard, it's a key type safety, not a lever, button or switch on the gun...

Also, 5.56mm weapons are NOT optimal jungle weapons, as has been demonstrated many times. It IS a highly accurate round (in a well-designed rifle), but it's designed for medium range to long range combat, not close-in work...A much better choice - and one well known to the SEALs of Team Six - would be the H&K family of submachine guns in 9mm...

2) On entry into Rwanda or the Congo (I can't recall which right off), the team and Dr. Samantha Carlson pass thru customs and passport control, and one of the SEALs seems not to understand why he has to give up one of his nice shirts from his overnight bag to the passport guy, despite the thinly veiled hint from that official, and Samantha 'rescues' him. Well, anyone who's been to those places (and an anti-terrorist expert from SEAL Team 6 would know this) understands the "tax" you pay in those situations. A bit of money, some cigarettes or a pornographic magazine perhaps, a nice bit of clothing...SOMETHING to grease the palms of 'bureacracy' is what gets you though in the Third World...that part of the story was just plain silly. That SEAL operator would have known that from past experience (as the book indicated he had plenty of).

3) The last fight scene between SEAL McNeil and Delta Force man Garret-whatever was so short as to be almost anti-climatical in my opinion.