{"product_id":"icefall-michael-newman-9798895656891","title":"Icefall: The Rise of the Nine","description":"\u003cb\u003eA team of superbeings are all that stands between Earth and total annihilation at the hands of a predatory alien species.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn alien ship crashed into Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier 150,000 years ago and froze within the ice...until glacial melting thawed out its deadly inhabitants in the present day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKai and Jules Bevins, both professors of astrobiology at Caltech, are roused from their home and whisked away to the site where a special division of the army has taken charge. But not before something escaped through a breach in the hull. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, a pair of Alaska state troopers locate a missing Amazon driver fifteen miles away on the Juneau Icefield and trace his movements to a nearby village with a population of less than fifty. Arriving in town, they are greeted by the bodies of villagers who were killed in an impossible, horrific way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThousands of miles away, under a remote archaeological find in Pakistan, the Nine--a team of superbeings placed on Earth a million years ago by intergalactic colonizers that seeded our planet to create human life--are lifted from their long slumber. The kind of threat they've been waiting for has finally come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Nine find unexpected allies culled from the ancient history of their home world in the form of a teenage boy and godlike entity. All this leads to a confrontation on a volcanic island that will determine the fate of civilization, even as the Nine uncover the shattering truth behind their own tragic paths and learn of a much greater battle to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill they be enough to stem the apocalyptic menace threatening all of mankind?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Newman,Jon Land\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798895656891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Permuted Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Michael Newman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48176144056575,"sku":"9798895656891","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_296e8e3e-4edc-47ce-b749-0c9788c4da45.jpg?v=1771336692","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/icefall-michael-newman-9798895656891","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}