Time: The Near-Future Place: The Frozen Arctic Tundra Russia vs. America in a space-age manhunt with the highest of stakes: Mankind’s future Across the brutal no-man’s land of the Arctic Tundra moves a solitary figure. Drugged past the point of exhaustion, totally unprepared for survival in subzero temperatures, he must endure a frozen hell no human has endured before. This man is a uniquely trained, invaluable American agent, and he carries with him information which will determine the course of history. He must survive — although the most sophisticated devices of Russian technology are working to insure his destruction — although the natural weapons of the Arctic menace him with every step he takes. He must survive — for on his survival hangs the future of mankind