The
men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845
Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the
legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise
as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle
without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of
encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men
fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships
buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more
terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen
predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When
the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain
Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last,
desperate attempt to flee south across the ice.
With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape. The Terror swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as "a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). With a haunting and constantly surprising story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core. -- from the Publisher.
With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape. The Terror swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as "a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). With a haunting and constantly surprising story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core. -- from the Publisher.
Blurbs from the Backlist highlights items in the Des Moines Public Library collections that are currently available, meaning, you could take one home today!
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