After a plane crashes into the Antarctic, Captain Alex Hunter and a squad of his elite soldiers, join a team of scientists on a mission to discover why the first rescue team lost contact, and also to allow the scientists to commence an analysis of an unidentified pool of liquid buried deep beneath the snow and ice. However what they find is a world of unimaginable horrors - ancient ruins of lost civilizations, and a prehistoric terror that has been dormant, possibly for thousands of years.
Greig Beck creates a world that is wonderful and frightening, but with a level of research that makes it all believable. He draws together the legends of the Kraken and Atlantis, and even made me think of some of Brian Lumley's stories with characters being engaging, and touches of real humour as well.
In all, Beck leaves his readers with a good dose of excitement and parasomnia- night terrors.