In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind together three people in a web of treachery and passion:

Halvard Starheim, veteran explorer, torn by the deaths of his friends and his love for a beautiful woman,

Ragna Johansen, the exquisitely attractive widow of one of the dead men on a desperate search for love and fulfilment,

Rolf Berg, brilliant Norwegian journalist whose secret other life holds the key to a deadly conspiracy.

The mission for the truth will lead them to a final confrontation in the freezing wastes of an Arctic wolf winter . . .

'A magnificent read. Move over Frederick Forsyth and Hammond Innes' Sunday Telegraph

'The classically structured spy thriller has rarely been better done' New York Times

Clare Francis is the author of eleven international bestsellers, including Homeland, Deceit, Betrayal and A Death Divided. She has also written three non-fiction books about her voyages across the oceans of the world. She lives in London.