num_pages: 512
description: In this haunting and suspenseful thriller Robert Masello delivers an adventure that spans continents and centuriesa spellbinding story that ranges from Victorian England to a remote antarctic research station where an ancient glacier yields a shocking prize it has held captive for nearly two hundred years. Journalist Michael Wildehis world recently shattered by tragedyhopes that a monthlong assignment to the South Pole will give him a new lease on life. Here in the most inhospitable place on earth he is simply looking to find solace . . . until on a routine dive in to the polar sea he unexpectedly finds something else entirely: a young man and woman bound with chains and sealed forever in a block of ice. Beside them a chest filled with a strange and sinister cargo.Now in a bleak but breathtaking world of shimmering icebergs deep blue crevasses and never-ending sun Wilde must unravel the mystery of this doomed couple. Were they the innocent victims of fear and superstitionor were they something far darker? His search will lead from the barracks and battlefields of the Crimean War to the unexplored depths of the Antarctic Ocean from the ill-fated charge of the Light Brigade to an age-old curse that survives to this day.As the ice around the murdered lovers begins to melt Wilde will have to grapple with a miracleor a nightmarein the making. For what is dead it turns out may not be gone. And here at the very end of the known world theres nowhere to hide and no place left for the living to run.
language: English
title: Blood and Ice
publisher: Spectra