They thought the cold would kill whatever was on that plane. They were wrong.
When a distress signal crackles through the radio, Bram Keller and his small crew at a remote Arctic station are ordered to respond. What they find isn’t wreckage—it’s a massacre. The pilots are dead… but still moving. And the snow around the fuselage is stained with something far too fresh.
What starts as a rescue turns into a desperate fight for survival as the infected swarm the ice, relentless and fast. With communications down and a storm closing in, Bram’s team must seal the station, or be overrun.
In the frozen dark, there’s nowhere to run—and nowhere to hide.
Arctic is a sci-fi/survival thriller set at an Arctic research station when a parasitic organism which takes over human hosts, "vessels", turning them into horrible abominations, however, they don't become zombies, but something worse, still harboring a sort of intelligence and are completely immune to the cold Arctic weather. The book is very well written, especially Bram's experience while infected. The characters are so well written that the reader gets a good idea of their traits and individual strength and bravery/ self sacrificing. The descriptions of both the creatures and the Arctic environment are also clear and do a very job at world building. Overall 4/5 stars, highly recommended to fans of outbreak and survival thrillers!
I saw this in my head as a movie. It had that kind of pacing. I really liked that, unlike other sci-fi stories, there was accommodation and working together between the species instead of destruction being the only option. It made the story more hopeful.
This book is super scary. A group of people find themselves isolated and battling something both foreign and ancient. They must somehow survive and stop the spread.