Icefall: The Rise of the Nine, (Paperback)

<b>"Dynamic characters headline this exhilarating fusion of action and alien horror."</b><br> <b>--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b> <p> <b>A team of superbeings are all that stands between Earth and total annihilation at the hands of a predatory alien species.</b> </p><p>An 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. </p><p>Kai 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. </p><p>Meanwhile, 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. </p><p>Thousands 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. </p><p>The 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. </p><p>Will they be enough to stem the apocalyptic menace threatening all of mankind?</p>

• Icefall: The Rise of the Nine, (Paperback)
• Author: Michael Newman
• ISBN: 9798895656891
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-07-14
• Page Count: 400