Victim of the Aurora (A Harvest book)
In the bitter Antarctic winter of 1910, in the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlem...
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In the bitter Antarctic winter of 1910, in the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentleman adventurers wait out a raging blizzard in the close, perpetual darkness, poised for a strike at the South Pole. As the storm lifts, a new challenge faces Captain Sir Eugene Stewart - to discover which of his twenty-five carefully chosen men has become a murderer - and what began as a probe for the bottom of the world becomes a probe for the depths of a man's soul.In this brilliantly plotted, rich, and fast-paced narrative of psychological suspense, Thomas Keneally mixes the testing of the elements with a testing of the social order as he exposes his unsavory victim - a blackmailer with no dearth of enemies - to a harsh environment that mocks the moral notions of men pushed by fierce cold and gnawing hunger to the outer limits of terror, rage, and humiliation.
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