The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expeditions leader Sir John Franklin meets a terrible death Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. But as another winter approaches as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible and as the Terror on the ice stalks them southward Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape. A haunting gripping story based on actual historical events The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.