{"product_id":"the-terror-a-novel-9780316017442","title":"The Terror: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition  the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage  they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw  though  they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold  with diminishing rations  126 men fight to survive with poisonous food  a dwindling supply of coal  and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship  a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When the expeditions leader  Sir John Franklin  meets a terrible death  Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last  desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival  or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches  as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible  and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward  Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape.  The Terror swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as \"a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them\" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). With a haunting and constantly surprising story based on actual historical events  The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279941263413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0316017442","price":58.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780316017442.jpg?v=1780616363","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-terror-a-novel-9780316017442","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}