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The Terror

by Dan Simmons
John Lee
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The men on board the HMS Terror—part of the ill-fated 1845 Franklin Expedition—are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of ice and desolation. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations and a dwindling coal supply. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in.
 
“A bone- and spine-chilling novel.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
 
“The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
 
“A mesmerizing thriller. . . . Simmon’s epic, like the frozen sea that trapped the sailors, holds you fast.”—Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly
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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged
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  • ISBN: 9781415937150
  • File size: 815497 KB
  • Release date: January 9, 2007
  • Duration: 28:18:57
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subjects

Fiction Thriller Historical Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1290
Text Difficulty:10-12

The men on board the HMS Terror—part of the ill-fated 1845 Franklin Expedition—are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of ice and desolation. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations and a dwindling coal supply. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in.
 
“A bone- and spine-chilling novel.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
 
“The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
 
“A mesmerizing thriller. . . . Simmon’s epic, like the frozen sea that trapped the sailors, holds you fast.”—Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly
Expand title description text
Fiction Thriller Historical Fiction
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