Fantasy

The Terror

by Dan Simmons
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Description

Hope of rescue is dwindling for sailors aboard two ships trapped in the Arctic on the ill-fated 1845 Sir John Franklin Expedition to find the North-West Passage. They have been locked in frozen waters for months. The climate is unbearably frigid, their food supply is spoiling, their fuel is diminishing, and the ice is slowly crushing both vessels and pulling them into the sea. But the men of ships Erebus and Terror are fighting to survive more than just treacherous conditions... some ungodly monster of unimaginable size, strength, and intelligence is attacking them at random, leaving some bodies unrecognizable and taking others away into the icy night.

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
CombatIncidental

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Details

First published
January 2007
Pages
944
Reading time
About 19 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
ISBN
9780553818208
Series
Standalone

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