Ice War (30 page)
Authors: Brian Falkner
ACOG:
Allied Combined Operations Group
CAL:
Calibre (of weapon)
CLEAR COPY:
Your transmission is clear
COIL-GUN:
Weapon using magnetic coils to propel a projectile
COM:
Personal radio communicator
EV (ECHO VICTOR):
Exit Vehicle
EYES ON:
To have sight of
FAST MOVER:
Fixed-wing aircraft such as a jet fighter
FFC:
Forward Fire Control
GPS:
Global Positioning System
HOW COPY:
Is my transmission clear?
KLICK:
Kilometre
LCAC:
Landing Craft Air Cushion (hovercraft)
LOT:
Lock Out Trunk
LT:
Lieutenant
MOPP:
Mission Oriented Protective Posture –protective gear used in toxic situations
MIKE:
Minute
NV GOGGLES:
Night-Vision goggles
OSCAR KILO:
Okay
OSCAR MIKE:
On the move
PFC:
Private First Class
PUKE:
Unofficial military slang for a Bzadian
ROTORCRAFT:
Helicopter with internal rotor blades at the base of the craft
RPG:
Rocket-propelled Grenade
SLOW MOVER:
Rotary wing aircraft such as a helicopter or rotorcraft
SONRAD:
Sonar/Radar
SPEC:
Specialist
TDA:
Temporary Duty Assignment
The following people won the grand prize in my school competitions and have had a character named after them in this book:
Courtney Fox,
St Peters School, Cambridge
Daniel Bilal,
Woodcrest State College
Emile Attaya,
Point View School, Auckland
Emily Gonzales,
Santa Gertrudis School
Gabrielle Bowden,
Hebron Christian College
Lynette Hooper,
Ipswich West State School
Elisabeth Iniguez,
Vista Del Ville School, Los Angeles
Harry Whitehead,
Waimea College
Hayden Wall,
Padua College
Retha Barnard,
Albany Junior High School
Blake Wilton,
Orewa College
Holly Brogan,
St Cuthberts College
Janos Panyoczki,
Kaiwaka School
Ryan Chisnall,
Belmont Intermediate School
Trianne Price,
Woodcrest State College
Congratulations also to Kamaljeet Hundal and Jaylen Gerrand.
Brian Falkner was born and raised in Auckland. He is the award-winning, best-selling author of several novels for children and young adults, including
The Flea Thing, The Real Thing
and
The Super Freak
. His action adventure sci-fi novels
The Tomorrow Code
and
Brainjack
were both short-listed for the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults and the Esther Glen Award at the LIANZA Awards, with
Brainjack
winning the New Zealand Post Book Awards, Children’s Choice Award (Young Adult Fiction category).
Brainjack
also won the 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award, Best Young Adult Novel.
The Project
has also been short-listed on the 2011 Storylines Notable Books List.
For more information please visit Brian’s website:
www.brianfalkner.com
First published in 2013
by Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd
Locked Bag 22, Newtown
NSW 2042 Australia
www.walkerbooks.com.au
This ebook edition published in 2013
The moral right of the author has been asserted.
Text © 2013 Brian Falkner
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without the prior written permission of the publisher.
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Falkner, Brian, author.
Ice war / Brian Falkner.
Series: Falkner, Brian. Recon team angel; 3.
For young adults.
Subjects: Science fiction.
Adventure stories.
NZ823.3
ISBN: 978-1-922244-19-2 (.ePub)
ISBN: 978-1-922244-18-5 (e-PDF)
ISBN: 978-1-922244-20-8 (.PRC)
Cover image © rudall30/Shutterstock.com
For Ray Richards, ONZM, DSC
1921 – 2013
An Officer and a Gentleman
