Arctic Thriller

In 2040, as poachers close in on the last polar bear on earth, an Inuit scientist named Nuli must use her abilities to save the bear’s life, even at the risk of her own. Nuli feels caught between two cultures, but when she develops a shamanic gift to communicate with the bear she calls Anuk, her mystical revelation is mind-blowing; Anuk has a plan of her own.

A man who has spent most of his life writing about heroes becomes one. Losing his elite status as one of Hollywood’s most successful writers, Derek Calendine comes out of seclusion with a new purpose. Derek takes on an important mission to retrieve three pieces of a powerful artifact, each scattered around the globe for centuries. Derek Calendine becomes The Adventurer, emulating his literary, comic, television, and movie idols. A character Derek created years prior but never fully realized, foreseen by an ancient prophesier centuries ago. Derek’s destiny was to become this noble hero. ...

Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time. During his lifetime Freuchen's remarkable adventures, related in his books, magazine articles, and films, made him a legend. In 1910, Freuchen and his friend and business partner, Knud Rasmussen, the renowned polar explorer, founded Thule—a Greenland Inuit trading post and village only 800 miles from the North Pole.

In the Arctic, two American intelligence operatives are kidnapped while investigating Russian submarines - a constant, covert presence beneath the ice caps. In Washington, ex-Marine Charlie Dean and his team at Desk Three trace the abduction back to the Russian mafiya, who have their sights set on the massive reserves of oil that lie thousands of feet below the ocean's floor.

Iðunn – the fountain of eternal youth or an instrument of death? Iðunn once granted the Norse gods eternal youth and immortality. But she took her secret to the grave long ago. Now, a reckless expedition is following in the footsteps of this myth, summoning great disaster. A mystical storm costs the lives of two expedition members, and the group's leader disappears without a trace. What the sole survivor reports sounds incredible: an archaic warrior of superhuman strength guards Iðunn's grave and will not rest as long as her heritage is in danger. A divine power that would have been ...

A break-in at the local bar seems at first glance a routine case of vandalism, likely the result of high schoolers looking to score some free booze. Except... No alcohol was stolen, there's no evidence of an actual break-in, and the thief was clearly looking for something. But what? Chief Ellie Matthews wants to know. Meanwhile, as a new werewolf, her first official turning is rapidly approaching―and she's seriously not looking forward to it. By all accounts, it's going to be painful and super weird, and she just doesn't have time for it. Not when it turns out someone is hunting all the ...

The story went something like this: Troy Jensen, who sailed solo around the world and conquered the seven summits, fell off a crab boat called Arctic Fire and drowned in the Bering Sea. Troy’s brother Jack, who doesn’t buy the story for a minute, heads to Alaska to uncover the truth. Jack discovers a connection between Troy and a secret intelligence organization known as Red Cell Seven (RCS) that will stop at nothing to protect America from threat (even if they have to kill thousands of Americans to do it). The problem is, the more Jack learns about Troy’s involvement with RCS, the more RCS learns about Jack.

"Heath's debut novel is gripping from the get-go." -Kirkus Reviews "Alaska is almost a character all on its own: beautiful, unpredictable, violent, and unforgiving. Broken Angels is a compelling debut by a talented new writer." -Elaine Ford, winner of the Michigan Literary Award. "This book was amazing, just as Burke brings New Orleans to life Heath puts Alaska into your soul." -Judy Smrdel "Heath has tapped his intimate knowledge of Alaska, its people, its coastal communities and its interior uniqueness and crafted a character-rich, page-turning, murder mystery." -An Alaskan She stares at ...

A gripping science thriller in the Arctic! Mysterious nanoparticles in a Greenland ice core confront biologist Nora Grimm with a fascinating puzzle. At first, she believes the 400,000-year-old ice is contaminated. But then the bizarre crystals suddenly show signs of life. Nora realizes that she has discovered far more than just prehistoric climate records. Also, Exobiologist Robert Greaves is on his way to Greenland to investigate a connection to a similar finding by the Mars rover Curiosity. Is this really an extraterrestrial life form that has been lying slumbering in obscurity since ...

He calls himself Ulf—as good a name as any, he thinks—and the only thing he’s looking for is a place where he won’t be found by Oslo’s most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman’s fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed—which may not be a problem for a man whose criminal reach is boundless. When Ulf gets off the bus in Kåsund, on Norway’s far northeastern border, he sees a “flat, monotonous, bleak landscape . . . the perfect hiding place. Hopefully.”

From award winning author of Paradise Harbour. A horrifying story of five scientists in the freezing lands who find themselves in a physical and psychological battle for survival against a mysterious source.

The heroine, Hanne Kristensen, the beautiful Danish geologist appointed Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources for the newly independent Greenland, has to maneuver through a wave of setbacks to foil both a Chinese attempt to control Greenland’s natural resources and a more aggressive Russian attempt to gain hegemony over the sparsely populated fledgling country as well as to save her friend, the ousted Premier of Russia, Pavel Laptov.

In the frozen wasteland, the only thing colder than the ice is death itself. Trapped in a deadly blizzard with monstrous xombies stalking the ice, Callie must fight to save a young girl and herself from an unrelenting nightmare. As the frozen lake cracks beneath their feet and the horrors multiply, survival means braving not only the cold but the inhuman predators hunting them. With every step, Callie faces impossible choices and the haunting specter of her own past. Safety is just ahead—but so is the unknown.

Arctic Meltdown, a gripping environmental thriller, is set against the backdrop of the melting polar icecap and the ensuing jostling for jurisdiction over additional seabed resources. Hanne Kristensen, a beautiful Danish geologist, has to contend with a corrupted UN process, China’s growing interest in Arctic resources and maritime routes, Russian military aggression and the resulting international tension to try to save the world from war and the Arctic from environmental catastrophe.

In The Arctic, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North. They focus on its peoples, politics, environment, resource development, and conservation to provide critical information about how changes there can, and will, affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall explore how the Arctic's importance has grown over time, the region's role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic's governance.

When aspiring travel writer Chloé Campbell is invited aboard a luxury airship flying to the North Pole, she thinks she’s bagged the opportunity of a lifetime. But she hasn’t had long to admire the dazzling icy views before a fellow passenger is found dead in their cabin. Trapped at the top of the world, the group agrees a tragic accident has occurred. But as the hours tick by, fear turns to doubt.

A double agent murdered in Hong Kong. Military satellites destroyed in space. A U.S. Virginia submarine on the prowl in the Arctic. A rogue Russian sub hunted by all sides including their own countrymen. Can NCIS Agent Jennifer Hobbs piece everything together and prevent yet another devastating nuclear conflagration.

Der Start der neuen Serie von Bestsellerautor Dale Brown, in dem Russland und die USA vor einem nuklearen Krieg stehen. Nach einer gescheiterten Mission wird Nicholas Flynn, Geheimdienstoffizier der Air Force, zu einer abgelegenen Radarstation an der arktischen Grenze Alaskas strafversetzt. Doch im hohen Norden braut sich nicht nur ein mächtiger Blizzard zusammen, plötzlich dringen auch russische Militärflugzeuge in den amerikanischen Luftraum ein. Der Kreml sucht fieberhaft nach einem atomar bewaffneten Tarnbomber, den ihr Testpilot entführt hat.

In the aftermath of a world war with China, Admiral Dan Lenson is assigned to set up a US Navy base on the rugged North Slope of Alaska, in response to Russian seabed claims that reach nearly to the US coast. Yet the current administration seems oddly reluctant to confront Russian aggression. At the same time, the International Criminal Court is accusing Dan of a war crime.

What's a Siberian tiger doing in Alaska? And why did it become a man-eater? For State Fish and Wildlife Protection Officers Jake and Julie MacDonald, answering those questions is the least of their worries! Partners in life and on the job, the most dangerous thing they usually have to deal with was arresting heavily armed poachers in the middle of nowhere with no backup. But their latest assignment is something out of a horror movie: Stopping a man-eating tiger who is terrorizing a remote village. And, as usual, Jake and Julie are on their own.