The Terror: A Novel

By Dan Simmons

Book Overview

The bestselling novel, "a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror" (Stephen King), now a major TV series. The men on board the HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. But what they don't expect is a monstrous predator lurking behind the Arctic ice. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a horrifying end, Captain Francis Crozier takes command, leading his surviving crewmen on a last desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. But another winter is rapidly approaching, and with it, scurvy and starvation. Crozier and his men may find that there is no escaping the terror stalking them southward. And with the crushing cold and the fear of almost certain death at their backs, the most horrifying monster among them may be each other.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316017442
• ISBN13: 9780316017442
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 2.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

The Terror Speakes for itself

I picked this up because I loved the Mini series. The comparisons as I read are interesting. Character development is really what this book is about. Very realistic. A careful building of tensions. Hard to put down.

One of my favorite books

This book is a great thriller, you never lose. Interest

Booklist Review

Warning - if you managed to skip the Booklist review posted above, don't read it. For some reason, the reviewer gives away the ending! I will never understand why people do that. DON'T DO THAT.