The Terror

ISBN-13:	9780316486095
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	03/06/2018
Pages:	784
Sales rank:	173,894
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.50(d)
Lexile:	1290L (what's this?)

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