The Terror Contributor(s): Simmons, Dan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316486094 ISBN-13: 9780316486095 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - General - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Media Tie-in |
Dewey: 813.54 |
Lexile Measure: 1290 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.4" W x 8" (1.45 lbs) 784 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 |