Hallie Leland, a microbiologist at CDC and an experienced diver, spelunker and mountain climber is the obvious choice to replace a laboratory colleague who dies while doing important research at the South Pole. From the moment she steps off the transport plane onto the forbidding frozen continent Hallie realizes that survival is going to be a day to day battle. Since she’d arrived a day early there is no one to meet her, and she almost dies as she sets off across the ice toward distant lights. Luckily she is spotted and safely brought to the research facility, but her reception is no warmer than the sub-zero temperatures outside. The Polies, or the scientists and workers at the remote station, exhibit distant, trance-like behavior and many chose drugs and alcohol to combat the isolation and physical discomfort of their frozen prison. Within days of Hallie’s arrival, three woman die
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Private, the elite private security firm, owned by Jack Morgan has tentacles that reach around the globe. When a Hollywood business man needs to discreetly and safely relocate his traumatized young daughter, Jack, assigns the head of his London office of Private, former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, to escort the girl from Los Angeles to London and to enroll her in school. Hannah Shapiro and her mother were the victims of kidnappers who raped and murdered the mother and were about to do the same to the girl when Jack Morgan burst into the room and saved the girl, but the psychological scars remain. It is almost a decade later and Hannah has been kidnapped again. This time her father will stop at
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