The Terror

By Dan Simmons

Book Overview

The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly).

The men on board the HMS Terror -- part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage -- are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. 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.

"The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years." --Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316017450
• ISBN13: 9780316017459
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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.