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Deadly Ice
The novel that started it all. Signed paperbacks shipping worldwide.
A Near-Future Climate Thriller
Deadly Ice
One father's desperate plan to save his daughter unleashes global catastrophe.
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The Novel
Some secrets should stay frozen.
Australia is ravaged by catastrophic drought. A father's desperate bid to save his dying daughter hinges on towing a colossal Antarctic iceberg across the Southern Ocean. When a solar-flare-induced earthquake triggers a tsunami that drives the iceberg onto a deep-sea oil rig, the mission of hope becomes a race against an apocalyptic oil slick. Deadly Ice is a fast-paced, character-driven eco-thriller about greed, family, and the price of pretending the planet can wait.
"A chilling, thoroughly modern thriller — Roberts writes about the climate the way Crichton wrote about DNA."
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Reader Recommendation – John Reece
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Reader Recommendation – Victoria P
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“Chris Roberts has created an incredible mix of fact and fiction in his newly released book Deadly Ice.
It is an extremely well-researched book that combines fact and fiction with real-life believable characters and events that could well happen given the current state of climate change and the disasters occurring with greater regularity. Water has become a precious commodity, and dragging ice could well become necessary to an arid Australia.
Tragedy, courage, and drive are all there in this book.”
John Reece
First reader
Reader Review
I have just finished Deadly Ice. How proud your parents would have been to read it.
I found the novel engrossing and was amazed at the depth of research behind its many themes — the ice, the rigs, disaster services, the oceans, flying, weather and shipping, to name just a few. It reads so well, and the characters are observed with great acuity.
Your writing is eloquent throughout. One sentence in particular stayed with me:
“Ice remembered what the air had been when the snow fell, and when you melted it down again, twelve thousand years later, what came out was older than every grievance human beings had managed to invent.”
Profound.
Jack and Ellie resonated strongly with me. As the grandmother of an eight-year-old girl who has lost her mother, I felt you articulated their grief with real sensitivity and truth.
This is an epic tale that has left me thinking about the important issues it raises. Well done — and best wishes for the next two.
Victoria P.
Reader · W.A.
“Roberts writes about the climate the way Crichton wrote about DNA. I read Deadly Ice in two sittings and dreamed about it for a week.”
Helena M.
Early reader · Auckland
“A disaster novel with a heart. The father-daughter thread is what stayed with me long after the tsunami hit.”
David L.
Book club host · Brisbane
“Genuinely couldn't put it down. Smart, terrifying, and grounded in real science. Bring on Toxic Legacy.”
Priya S.
Reviewer · Wellington
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The Deadly Ice Van
The Deadly Ice van — taking the novel on the road across New Zealand. Signed copies available.
The Series
Three novels. One warming world.
Sequel · Coming 2027
Toxic Legacy
The disaster is over. Its inheritance is only beginning.
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The Author
Forty years of stories, finally on the page.
Chris Roberts is a retired businessman who traded business for storytelling. From opal mining in Coober Pedy in 1978 to a quiet life in Cambridge, Waikato, he has spent four decades collecting the ideas that fuel his thrillers.
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