Fire and Ice is a gripping thriller focused on the political military tensions created by a modern-day Russia at its most vindictive worst. Vladimir Putin emerges as the central character who uses the fulcrum of Belarus to threaten western Europe through a series of lethal and effective attacks on US and European energy sources. Fire and Ice poses the plausible and highly realistic question, can he and his rogue nation be thwarted through the combined efforts of EU and US military and political might?