In Alaska, nature can be cruel- but human nature is crueler.
After an early spring thaw on the Alaskan coast, Anchorage police discover a gruesome new piece of evidence in their search for a serial killer - a dismembered human foot.
In the remote northern town of Deadhorse, Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter escorts four very dangerous handcuffed prisoners onto a small bush plane. He-s expecting a routine mission and a nonstop flight- But everything goes wrong.
When the plane goes down in the wilderness, all hell breaks loose. The prisoners murder the pilot and a guard and torch the plane. But the nightmare is only just beginning. Back in Anchorage, deputy Lola Teariki has traced the dismembered foot to a missing girl--and the serial psychopath who slaughtered her.
It''s one of the prisoners on Cutter''s flight-
Now it''s a deadly game of survival. With no means of communication, few supplies, and ravenous grizzly bears and wolves lurking i