The Terror

About “The Terror”

By the bestselling author of Ilium, this book transforms the story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a historical adventure. The men of HMS Terror and Erebus, part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition seeking the North-West Passage, become trapped in Arctic ice for nearly two years, stalked by something that mutilates and devours them one at a time. After Franklin's death, Captain Francis Crozier leads the remaining crew, aided by a mute Eskimo woman, in a desperate attempt to flee south.