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POLAR
A breathtaking literary thriller set in the High Arctic
POLAR is a powerful eco-thriller, a spectacular account of industrial intrigue and maritime disaster, but also a beautifully written adventure story of escape and survival in the wastes of an Arctic winter.
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 marriage break-up, her life is imperilled when an oil rig explodes in the Beaufort Sea.
Carrie is presumed dead though in fact she is boat-wrecked in the nightmarish landscape of the oil-laced winter ice, with only a paralysed, dying stranger for company. Somehow, she must try to save him and find her way back to civilization.
But what caused the rig explosion? Accident or act of environmental terrorism? The injured man holds the answers, but he's not talking.
Meanwhile Carrie's only friend, the stricken rig's corporate director, Jim Ross, must manage the disaster's aftermath while concealing his own guilty secrets. And it is only the compromised Ross who believes against all the evidence that Carrie is alive.
As the oil spills out of control beneath the ice, Ross battles to mount a rescue mission. But is his obsession merely a way to try to assuage his own terrible culpability?
A gripping read, with elements of THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, INTO THIN AIR and MISS SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Harry Whitehead is a novelist and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing. He has been a Wingate Scholar and was 2016-7 Eccles Centre Fellow in North American Studies at the British Library, while researching POLAR. He has a degree in Anthropology, an MSc in Medical Anthropology and PhD in Creative Writing. He worked for many years in the film business as an assistant director, location scout and manager, and recently as a story consultant.
His literary historical debut THE CANNIBAL SPIRIT (Penguin Canada), was described as 'powerful, brave, ambitious' (The Globe and Mail), 'a thriller with a Joseph Conradian plot' (The Walrus), 'a unique work, compelling, complex, thought-provoking and impressive' (Quill and Quire).
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 marriage break-up, her life is imperilled when an oil rig explodes in the Beaufort Sea.
Carrie is presumed dead though in fact she is boat-wrecked in the nightmarish landscape of the oil-laced winter ice, with only a paralysed, dying stranger for company. Somehow, she must try to save him and find her way back to civilization.
But what caused the rig explosion? Accident or act of environmental terrorism? The injured man holds the answers, but he's not talking.
Meanwhile Carrie's only friend, the stricken rig's corporate director, Jim Ross, must manage the disaster's aftermath while concealing his own guilty secrets. And it is only the compromised Ross who believes against all the evidence that Carrie is alive.
As the oil spills out of control beneath the ice, Ross battles to mount a rescue mission. But is his obsession merely a way to try to assuage his own terrible culpability?
A gripping read, with elements of THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, INTO THIN AIR and MISS SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Harry Whitehead is a novelist and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing. He has been a Wingate Scholar and was 2016-7 Eccles Centre Fellow in North American Studies at the British Library, while researching POLAR. He has a degree in Anthropology, an MSc in Medical Anthropology and PhD in Creative Writing. He worked for many years in the film business as an assistant director, location scout and manager, and recently as a story consultant.
His literary historical debut THE CANNIBAL SPIRIT (Penguin Canada), was described as 'powerful, brave, ambitious' (The Globe and Mail), 'a thriller with a Joseph Conradian plot' (The Walrus), 'a unique work, compelling, complex, thought-provoking and impressive' (Quill and Quire).
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