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Prologue and Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapters 1-20

• The Prologue of the novel is set on the Research Vessel Icefall in the Atlantic Ocean, 88 miles off the coast of Antarctica.

• Karl Selig is watching the icebergs crumble aboard the ship; he calls his graduate-school friend, Steve Cooper, over to look as a long, black object is uncovered under the ice.

• The object that appears as the ice crumbles appears to be a submarine, but it is sticking out of another metallic object, "this one gray and much, much larger than the sub."

• Karl reads part of the side of the submarine, which says U-977 SS Kreigsmarine; it is a Nazi submarine from the Nazi expeditions to Antarctica in the late 1930s.

• Steve and Karl go to check out the submarine, leaving Naomi in charge of the ship.

• When the ice begins to shatter and collapse around Steve, Karl...

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