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Article: `Absolute Zero' by Chuck Logan; HarperCollins.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 6, 2002
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Forget Iron Man contests. Chuck Logan offers his characters something wilder, rougher and more dangerous in his fourth thriller, "Absolute Zero."
Even though it starts with that old thriller cliche, a disoriented man in a hospital bed, don't be put off by the opening. Because it gets much better _ for a while, anyway.
Here's the set-up: Vietnam vet and ex-cop Broker, who owns a resort, is leading a group of guys on a moose hunt in northern Minnesota. He's "a misfit, a maverick, and maybe a shade more outlaw than cop." But the men he's leading aren't the chunky, wheezing yuppies you might expect, even though one of them couldn't leave his cellphone ...