For fans of Dan Brown and Michael Crichton--an eerie, evocative thriller
set in the unforgiving Arctic from the author of The Orpheus Descent.
Deep in the Arctic, the US Coast Guard icebreaker Terra Nova batters
its way through the frozen sea. A gaunt figure skis out of the fog on
the pack ice. He says his name is Thomas Anderson, and that he's the
lone survivors of a terrible accident at the research outpost Zodiac
Station, located on the ice-bound island of Utgard.
Ten days earlier, he'd arrived at Zodiac Station looking to resurrect a
career destroyed by scientific scandal. But things quickly went wrong
when the man who hired him, brilliant biochemist Martin Hagger, turned
up dead, at the bottom of a crevasse. The base commander insisted he
fell. But footprints in the snow told a much different story. As
Anderson tells a tale of sabotage, suspicion, and paranoia, the mystery
only deepens.
When other survivors are discovered and their stories cast doubt on
Anderson's reliability, it seems the grim fate of the scientists at
Zodiac Station may involve human greed, jealousy, oil company trickery,
Russian espionage, genetic experimentation, and global warming. But the
truth is something no one on the Terra Nova could have imagined.
A fast-paced, gripping thriller that marries science and adventure,
Zodiac Station is as chilling and unpredictable as the fierce Arctic
landscape.
