Fast Ice (with Graham Brown) by Clive Cussler

Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9780593327876
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons; Penguin Random House
Published: 2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00

Captain Jurgenson could not have been expected to know the peril of the rapid icing agent present in the lake upon which he landed. His exemplary flight skills not only saved himself but his entire crew. Reinstatement to active flight status is effective immediately.

“He did crash,” Gamay said.

Paul had discovered a map, drawn by the Bremerhaven’s commanding officer. Long, thin sections were marked in red and numbered. They looked like flight plans to Paul, out and back from the Bremerhaven’s position.

“Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf,” Paul said, doing his best to pronounce the German numbers. “If Jurgenson’s plane crashed on flight number four, this would have been his planned flight path.”

The long outbound flight covered five hundred miles of territory. A thirty-mile crosswind turn took them east, before another long leg brought them back to ship’s position. “That’s still fifteen thousand square miles,” Paul said.

“Better than half a million,” Gamay replied. “Which is what the Schwabenland expedition covered.”

“It’s not a bull’s-eye,” Paul said. “But it’s a start. All thanks to our friend Jurgenson. Whatever happened to him anyway?”

Gamay returned to his personnel file, summarizing aloud as she went. “He was discharged prior to the start of the war. He was then reactivated for duty in December of 1942.”

“Total war,” Paul said. “On two fronts at the same time. At some point, the Nazis began running low on pilots, soldiers and everything else.”

“Except he wasn’t assigned to fly,” Gamay said. “When I look at his personnel record, he was assigned directly to the SS itself.”

Paul’s eyebrows knitted together. “You’re kidding me?”

She read the orders. “Captain Jurgenson reinstated to military service and promoted to rank of Major, concurrent with responsibilities required by Alpine Unit, Schutzstaffel.”

“Drafted and promoted,” Paul said. “Interesting.”

Gamay continued. “His initial post was to the Norsk Hydro plant in Norway.”

“Norsk Hydro was the Nazi heavy water manufacturing facility,” Paul said. “The British blew it up, concerned that the Nazis were on track to building an atomic bomb.”

“He was there only a few weeks,” Gamay said. “His later assignment took him farther up the peninsula, to the top of Norway, above the Arctic Circle. That was his last posting. He was killed during an attack by Norwegian resistance members two months after arriving.”

Paul frowned. “A sad end for a man who clearly never wanted to be a Nazi. What was he working on?”

Gamay paused. There was a code name connected to his assignment, but the computer program hadn’t come up with a direct English translation. She clicked on the menu and then tapped the option that asked the computer to guess.

A little hourglass appeared on the screen. It flipped over several times before vanishing just as the answer appeared.

“He was assigned to a project known as . . . Fast Ice.”

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