New York: The Viking Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Latvian born author, set at a research camp in the Arctic. "In the forbidding climate of the Arctic Circle, metal cracks like glass, rubber shatters, plastic crumbles, and world famous scientists are dying horrific deaths -- and no on knows why." 402 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-670-034371.