The Terror: A Novel by Simmons, Dan

ISBN: 0316017450

Author: Simmons, Dan

Condition: new

The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly).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