Read it for the gripping, page-turning prose and unpredictable ending.
After a catastrophic storm sends the Arctic Promise off-course, the crew falls ill to a strange flu-like ailment. Now stuck in thickening ice and fog, the few healthy crewmates set out to investigate a looming shape on the horizon.
Nothing is quite as it seems in this visceral and claustrophobic thriller.
In this well-researched and intricately plotted fictionalization of the disastrous Franklin Expedition, the crews of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus reckon with frostbite, snow-blindness, disease, mutiny... and a monstrous creature on the ice.