Black Ice

Filmmaker and real-life adventurer Matt Dickinson has climbedMount Everestand trekked the icy wastes ofAntarctica, experiences which bring this edge-of-the-seat thriller to chilling life. TRAPPED IN A FROZEN HELL Adventurer Carl Norland and celebrity explorer Julian Fitzgerald have teamed up in an attempt to walk across Antarctica at its widest point, a crossing of some 2,000 frozen miles. Success would place their names alongside those of such polar legends as Scott, Shackleton, and Admundsen, but when their goal proves beyond their reach, a frantic rescue begins. A DESPERATE BID FOR RESCUE BEGINS Hundreds of miles away at drilling station Capricorn, scientist Laura Burgess and her team have made a discovery that will stagger the scientific world. News of their discovery must wait, however, as an urgent plea for rescue reaches the remote camp. Into a gathering storm, the rescuers race to snatch the dying adventurers from nature's hungry grasp. WHILE A DEADLY SECRET THREATENS THEM ALL But even the Antarctic's unending whiteness cannot hide the utter darkness of a madman's heart. Just as salvation seems imminent, a terrible secret threatens to turn the saviors into unwitting victims. And all the while, nature gathers her strength, determined to lay claim to them all...Dickinson, Matt is the author of 'Black Ice', published 2006 under ISBN 9780312989323 and ISBN 0312989326.