<p>In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind together three people in a web of treachery and passion:<br><br> <i>Halvard Starheim</i>, veteran explorer, torn by the deaths of his friends and his love for a beautiful woman,<br><br> <i>Ragna Johansen</i>, the exquisitely attractive widow of one of the dead men on a desperate search for love and fulfilment,<br><br> <i>Rolf Berg</i>, brilliant Norwegian journalist whose secret other life holds the key to a deadly conspiracy.<br><br> The mission for the truth will lead them to a final confrontation in the freezing wastes of an Arctic wolf winter . . .<br><br> 'A magnificent read. Move over Frederick Forsyth and Hammond Innes' <i>Sunday Telegraph </i><br><br> 'The classically structured spy thriller has rarely been better done&
