Arctic Sun

From the award-winning author of Moskva and Nightfall Berlin a gripping suspense-filled thriller in the frozen North . . .‘Cold War conspiracies build to a bloody climax in the snow’ The Times Thriller of the Month----Winter 1987. The Kola Peninsula northern Russia.A secret underground research station is destroyed in an explosion.Coming months after the Chernobyl disaster the Soviets will do anything to conceal the incident. Which is bad news for British Arctic researcher Dr Amelia Blackburn who stumbles on the truth . . .Lost in frozen endless night Kola is as difficult to survive in as it is impossible to get into or out of without the Soviets noticing. But those are Major Tom Fox’s orders: find Amelia learn what she knows leave. His chances of success drop with the temperature.But Fox a widower desperate to see his son again has one thing the Soviets chasing him lack. A light to guide him in the darkness . . .----‘For those who enjoy vintage le Carré’ Ian Rankin‘The new le Carré’ BBC Radio 2 The Sara Cox Show‘A proper page-turning high stakes thriller’ Crime Time‘A damned fine writer’ IndependentBritish Science Fiction Award winner 2006