Wildlife biologist Alex Carter is back, fighting for endangered
species in the Canadian Arctic and battling for her life in this
action-packed follow-up to A Solitude of Wolverines, "a true stunner
of a thriller debut" (James Rollins) and "a great read" (Nevada Barr).
Fresh off her wolverine study in Montana, wildlife biologist Alex Carter
lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the
Canadian Arctic. Embedded with a small team of Arctic researchers, she
tracks the majestic bears by air, following them over vast, snowy
terrain, spending days leaning precariously out of a helicopter with a
tranquilizer gun, until she can get down on the ice to examine them up
close.
But as her study progresses, and she gathers data on the health of
individual bears, things start to go awry. Her helicopter pilot quits
unexpectedly, equipment goes missing, and a late-night intruder breaks
into her lab and steals the samples she's collected. She realizes that
someone doesn't want her to complete her study, but Alex is not easily
deterred.
Managing to find a replacement pilot, she returns to the icy expanses of
Hudson Bay. But the helicopter catches fire in midflight, forcing the
team to land on a vast sheet of white far from civilization. Surviving
on the frozen landscape is difficult enough, but as armed assailants
close in on snowmobiles, Alex must rely on her skills and tenacity to
survive this onslaught and carry out her mission.
