A Thousand Degrees Below Zero

A sudden sound in the sky, a flash of impossible cold, and New York Harbor is transformed into a frozen trap in midsummer. Murray Leinster's A Thousand Degrees Below Zero launches a fast-moving scientific adventure in which ice behaves like a living force, swallowing ships, blocking straits, and spreading panic from harbor to harbor across the world. As scientists and reporters scramble for explanations, the disaster is revealed as the work of Wladislaw Varrhus, a ruthless would-be dictator determined to control commerce and nations by freezing their lifelines. Professor Hawkins, his daughter Evelyn, and the fearless Teddy Gerrod race to uncover the truth, confront airborne attacks from a black flying machine, and battle a terrifying "cold bomb" hidden beneath the ice. From Arctic expeditions and trench mortars to sabotage, murder, and catastrophic explosions, the story builds into a tense clash of invention, ambition, and survival in a world threatened by a man-made ice age. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.