The men on board the HMS Terror — 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.

“The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000PAAH3A
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company (March 8, 2007)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 8, 2007
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2907 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 944 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1407038990
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This “creepy” novel inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly).

HMS Terror was part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered ship to search for the legendary Northwest Passage. Ice and darkness. In the endless cold, they struggled to survive on toxic rations, dwindling coal supplies and ships bent under the grip of crushed ice. But their real enemy is far more formidable. In the cold darkness, something exists: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a giant terrorist clawing at their ship.

“The best, most unusual historical novel I’ve read in years.” —Catherine A. Powers, The Boston Globe

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000PAAH3A
Publisher‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company (March 8, 2007)
Publication date‏ : ‎ March 8, 2007
Language‏ : ‎ English
File size‏ : ‎ 2907 KB
Text to Speech‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader‏ : ‎ Support
Enhanced typography‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length‏ : ‎ 944 pages
Page source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1407038990

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