Icebound

By Dean Koontz

Scientists in Russia learned that the water constituting the icecaps have much lower bacteria than any water. American scientists, Drs. Harold and Rita Carpenter gathered a team of four colleagues to learn more about the discovery. An underwater earthquake breaks apart the iceberg which the six scientists are on, and they are stranded on the now detached chunk of ice.

Their biggest problem is that they have to get off the iceberg before midnight because they had planted 12 explosives in the ice, but because the ice is now detached they cannot get off. The team is set adrift on the section with the explosives. While trying to figure out a way off the iceberg in the middle of a huge storm, they discover that one of their own is a psychopath and that there is a cold blooded murderer in their midst, as someone among them has tried to kill a fellow scientist.

Their only hope of rescue is a Russian submarine just miles away. As they make desperate plans with the Russians to escape the iceberg they must also try to discover who the killer is, before attempting their risky rescue.

Not the most interesting Dean Koontz novel.