From the ice, polar nears aren’t the just natural given birth to killers.

Nick Stone is suffering. Both people he cared for most are eliminated.

Thousands of mls away five ex-servicemen, badly wounded in Afghanistan, are preparing for a trek to the North Pole in an attempt to start to rebuild their shattered bodies and thoughts. When Stone is usually summoned as close protection for the trek by an old SAS official, he accepts unthinkingly, desperate for the opportunity to escape his personal misery.

They meet on the world’s most northerly airport, where the locals are as hard as nails as well as the polar bear threat helps it be illegal never to carry a gun. But it doesn’t take long for Stone and his group to learn that neither the bears nor the locals will be the most harmful predators with this part of the world.

It really is quickly clear to Stone that the coldest war of all is just starting .