Publisher's Synopsis
A NASA astronaut is dying on the Antarctic ice-shelf. Testing an experimental space-suit in the extreme conditions, he is lost in the white-out, facing a total communications and life-support powerdown.It's Christmas 1999: Richard Mariner - aboard HMS Erebus, delivering New Year supplies to the BAS bases nearby - becomes involved in NASA's desperate rescue attempt. So do the passengers on board Kalinin, a state-of-the-art Russian cruise liner. But then, as an FBI investigation into the astronaut's death traps them all at the NASA base, other deaths occur and suspicious events start to become explosive...
