Part of NUMA Files, book 18
First published 2021
A former NUMA researcher vanishes while studying Antarctic icebergs. Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala travel to the frozen continent to find their missing colleague. The frigid waters and deadly temperatures prove treacherous, but Austin discovers something far worse than natural hazards. Someone has weaponized ice itself, creating a substance that grows at alarming speed. This artificial ice threatens to trigger a new Ice Age that would destroy civilization. Austin uncovers the weapon's origins in a Nazi plot from decades past. A madman now controls this technology and plans to freeze the entire planet. Massive storms complicate the mission as Austin and the NUMA team work against time. They must stop the villain before his ice weapon buries the world in permanent winter. Austin faces both human enemies and the brutal Antarctic environment in his fight to save humanity from an endless freeze.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Antarctica, NUMA
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
416 pages · Hardcover · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Content warnings: violence