The men on board the HMS Terror - part of the ill-fated 1845 Franklin Expedition - are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of ice and desolation. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations and a dwindling coal supply. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in.
A bone- and spine-chilling novel.
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.
- Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
A mesmerizing thriller… . Simmon’s epic, like the frozen sea that trapped the sailors, holds you fast.
- Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly