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Find out moreRobert Masello is an award-winning journalist, television writer, and the author of many previous books, most recently Blood and Ice. His articles and essays have appeared often in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, People and Parade, and his nonfiction book, Robert's Rules of Writing, has become a staple in many college classrooms. His television credits include such popular shows as Charmed, Sliders and Early Edition. He lives in Santa Monica, CA.
Almost a century ago, a desperate young woman crawled ashore a desolate Arctic island carrying a mysterious emerald-encrusted cross and a terrible secret. In the present day, Army epidemiologist Frank Slater is facing a court-martial, but after his punishment is mysteriously lifted, Slater is offered a job no one else wants - to travel to a small island off the coast of Alaska and investigate a potentially lethal phenomenon: The permafrost has begun to melt, exposing bodies from a colony that was wiped out by the dreaded Spanish flu of 1918. Frank must determine if the thawed remains still carry the deadly virus in their frozen flesh and, if so, ensure that it doesn't come back to life. The colony, it transpires, was once settled by a sect devoted to the mad Russian monk Rasputin, but there is even more hiding in the past than Frank's team is aware of. By the time Frank discovers that his mission has been crashed by a gang of reckless treasure hunters he will be in a brutal race against time. With his signature blend of fascinating history and fantastic imagination, critically acclaimed author Robert Masello has once again crafted a terrifying story of past events coming back to haunt the present day ...and of dark deeds aching to be unearthed.
When journalist Michael Wilde is commissioned to write a feature about a remote research station deep in the frozen beauty of Antarctica he is prepared for some extraordinary sights. But on a diving expedition in the polar sea he comes across something so extraordinary to be almost unbelievable - a man and woman chained together, deep in the ice. The doomed lovers are brought to the surface but as the ice begins to thaw the scientists discover the unusual contents of the bottles buried behind the pair, and realise they are all in terrible danger...
"e;Er erkannte das Gesicht einer jungen Frau, die ihn anstarrte, wie Dornroschen, gefangen in einem eisigen Kerker."e;Nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag ubernimmt der Journalist Michael Wilde einen Auftrag, der ihn in die Antarktis fuhrt. In der frostigen Einsamkeit hofft er Abstand zu finden, doch in die rationale Welt der Polarforscher bricht urplotzlich das Dunkle und Irrationale ein: Bei einem Tauchgang entdeckt Michael Wilde die beiden Korper eines Mannes und einer Frau - aneinandergekettet und perfekt konserviert in hundertfunfzig Jahre altem Gletschereis. An ihrer Seite wird eine Truhe mit geheimnisvollem Inhalt gefunden. Der mysteriose Fund bringt Wilde auf die Spur einer Geschichte, die Jahrhunderte und Kontinente uberspannt. Und die sein Leben fur immer verandern wird...
Journalist Michael Wilde his world recently shattered by tragedy hopes that a monthlong assignment to the South Pole will give him a new lease on life. Here, in the most inhospitable place on earth, he is simply looking to find solace...until, on a routine dive in to the polar sea, he unexpectedly finds something else entirely: a young man and woman, bound with chains and sealed forever in a block of ice. Beside them a chest filled with a strange, and sinister, cargo. Now, in a bleak but breathtaking world of shimmering icebergs, deep blue crevasses, and never-ending sun, Wilde must unravel the mystery of this doomed couple. Were they the innocent victims of fear and superstition or were they something far darker? His search will lead from the barracks and battlefields of the Crimean War to the unexplored depths of the Antarctic Ocean, from the ill-fated charge of the Light Brigade to an age-old curse that survives to this day. As the ice around the murdered lovers begins to melt, Wilde will have to grapple with a miracle or a nightmare in the making. For what is dead, it turns out, may not be gone. And here, at the very end of the known world, theres nowhere to hide and no place left for the living to run.