Outpost
By: Adam Baker
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781444709032
Subjects: End of the world; Fiction; Epidemics
Description: They took the job to escape the world, they didn't expect the world to end. Kasker Rampart is a derelict refinery platform moored in the Arctic Ocean. A crew of fifteen fight boredom and despair as they wait for a relief ship to take them home. However, the world beyond their frozen wasteland has gone to hell. Cities lie ravaged by a global pandemic. TV channels die, replaced by silent wavebands. The Rampart crew are marooned, must survive the long Arctic winter, then make their way home alone. They battle starvation and hypothermia, unaware that the deadly contagion that has devastated the world is heading their way.