ISBN: 0316003883 9780316003889

Category: Fiction / Historical / General

Page count: 784

<b>The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>). </b><br><br>The men on board the HMS <i>Terror </i>— part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. 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.<br><br><b>“The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, <i>Boston Globe</i></b>