This work of speculative fictionby Michael C. Grumley is set 2046 after the United States as we know it has suffered The Collapse. In the Prologue, a man is taken into the Himalayas by a couple of guides who discovered a large metal structure in the ice. Upon verifying their story, the client murders both guides. The main story has to do with a mortal game of cat and mouse as one side is trying to revive and protect a man who has been cryogenically frozen, while the other side wants him back to learn things about how the process affected him. But as the book expands, we are introduced to the group of nine people who are planning to freeze themselves and be revived when medicine has advanced sufficiently to keep them alive much longer than normal. Obscene amounts of wealth and the technology and security resources that that wealth can buy definitely give them the upper hand.
Publishers Weekly offers this review: Grumley's riveting sequel to Deep Freeze successfully steers the series into full-tilt sci-fi madness. After dying in a freak bus accident, U.S. Army veteran John Reiff was revived as part of a covert research program ...Twenty-three years later, Reiff has been frozen again and stored in a cabin in Utah. His body is removed from storage by a group of his apparent allies...They've retrieved Reiff because he's become a subject of interest for a shadowy group of power brokers called "The Nine," whose members want to know if Reiff's freezing had any adverse effects. If not, they plan to freeze themselves to survive a mysterious event. Once Reiff's rescuers bring him back to life, they learn he may be connected to a bizarre discovery involving space travel, which carries massive implications for the future of the planet. Grumley tosses a lot of balls in the air, but he juggles them all nimbly, keeping the plot's many surprises well concealed without sacrificing pace. Blake Crouch fans will love this."
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