Antarctica is the coldest, most isolated place on earth. Luke Searle, maverick glaciologist, has made it his home. But soon his survival skills will be tested to the limit by a ruthless mercenary who must win at any cost. The white continent is under attack. The Australian team is being hunted down. Can Luke stay alive long enough to raise the alarm? Can he avert a global catastrophe?
Goodreads Reviews
3.6 rating based on 550 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1741967899
ISBN-13: 9781741967890
Goodreads: 14059059
Author(s): Publisher: Pier 9
Published: 8//2012
'The best Antarctic thriller since Ice Station.' James Phelan
Antarctica is the coldest, most isolated place on earth. Luke Searle, maverick glaciologist, has made it his home. But soon his survival skills will be tested to the limit by a ruthless mercenary who must win at any cost. The white continent is under attack. The Australian team is being hunted down. Can Luke stay alive long enough to raise the alarm? Can he avert a global catastrophe?
The countdown has begun. T minus 5 days, 2 hours and 53 minutes …
From the author:
I used to work for a climate change consultancy and have spent time in Antarctica. I am also a bit unusual in that I studied literature at the University of London, and I am a great believer in the power of storytelling to help us understand our world and our place in it. I think that climate change is a scary and elusive concept that can be easily ignored because it isn’t always tangible and is costly to tackle. Most people find the science baffling and the doubt-mongers deliberately confuse us further. But a fast-paced action thriller set in Antarctica with the lives of millions at stake is a way of not only entertaining but of raising the idea that accelerating climate change will have a devastating impact on our lives. Fiction is less confronting that non-fiction, but it can be just as powerful, possibly more so, because it engage the readers’ emotions. Thrillers especially do this as they take the reader on a roller-coaster ride of emotions from despair to hope, from terror to relief, from joy to grief and so on.
