Icebound (1976) (edit title/settings)

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• Nikita Gorov: Captain of the russian submarine Ilya Pogodin

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• “"I joined up for the adventure. Now I'm sure as hell getting more of it than I bargained for. If we ever get out of this mess, I swear I'll be content to spend my evenings at home with a good book."”

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• The first brand of heroism—heroism sought—had a distinct quality of selfishness, but heroism unsought was selfless.

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• “I cannot convince a man of my truth simply by silencing him when he tries to speak his own.”

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• Except for professional mannequins and British Prime Ministers, no one ever accomplished anything by standing still.

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• He wasn’t claustrophobic, but he had a logical and healthy fear of being confined in an extremely cramped place ninety feet beneath the ice, in the Arctic wilderness, while surrounded by fifty-eight enormous packages of explosives that were ticking rapidly toward detonation. He was funny that way.

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• “Heroes can be scared and still be heroes. That’s what makes them heroes—acting in spite of fear.

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• He was no atheist. He had seen what monstrous acts the leaders of society would condone when they believed there was no God; he knew that there was no hope for justice in a world where the concepts of divine retribution and life after death had been abandoned. God must exist, for otherwise humankind couldn’t be prevented from destroying itself.

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• Iceberg flow

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Dean Koontz (Author)
2. David Axton (Author) - Pseudonym of Dean Koontz

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( K ) › Koontz, Dean
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( K ) › Koontz, Dean
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Psychological & Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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• Dean Koontz: Author's website