Only one knows the truth. Only one can reveal it. Only one can save them all."Capitalism is melting as well as the ice, and both get more dangerous as they die."Mat Coward, Morning Star newspaperCarrie, a Scottish rescue swimmer out of her depth in the High Arctic. Ross, the owner of an oil rig with a guilty conscience. Amaruq, an Inuvialuit oil-rig worker caught between two worlds.Stranded on the Arctic ice with a starving ...

Only one knows the truth. Only one can reveal it. Only one can save them all.Carrie Essler is an ex-British-Navy rescue swimmer, now working for the Canadian Coast Guard. Transferred to the remote outpost of Tuktoyaktuk after a bitter break-up, she finds herself in dire peril when an oil rig explodes in the Beaufort Sea. Carrie is presumed dead – though in fact she is stranded on a small boat in a nightmarish landscape of oil-laced ice. With her is a dying man, a paralysed stranger...