In the XNUMXth century, the seas and oceans of the planet still conserved an old aura of mystery and large doses of adventure for all those who ventured to travel them for any purpose. Beyond the oceanographic cartographies that already outlined lands and seas, the old myths and the still limited communication and navigation techniques, transformed any expedition into an adventure.
This novel starts from what happened in the expedition of the Erebus and Terror boats that left London on May 18, 1945 and that after several months of navigation, once they had entered the Arctic, led to the death of the 135 crew members.
The sad and objective facts were discovered some time later, but the day-to-day events of the tragedy will remain in a frozen limbo of chilling air currents.
And that, the most unknown intrahistory of the disaster, has dealt with Dan simmons, who, with his prodigious imagination, presents us with a thriller from the most basic instincts of survival, spiced with perverse certainties that something else could have taken care of all those men who died at more than twenty degrees below zero.
Hope is the last thing a sea lion or risk-loving adventurer loses. Dan Simons introduces us to some men determined to get ahead in the face of a catastrophe. Only, as the food is disappearing and the cold continued to rage in flesh and spirit, violence is occupying the souls of all those men. The authority of the command is weakening and cannibalism appears as the only alternative.
But not only men themselves consider eating the victims of their species, those who until recently were companions of adventure in search of new routes to the northwest of the world. Something else stalks them like an eerie blue shadow, moving in the cold breezes and attacking like a practically invisible beast.
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