{"product_id":"white-road-climate-fiction-eco-thriller-adventure","title":"White Road Climate Fiction Eco Thriller Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnly one knows the truth. Only one can reveal it. Only one can save them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A gripping, page-turning eco-thriller, part oil rig drama and part survival story. The worlds of the oil industry and the Arctic are convincingly rendered.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Kevan Manwaring, author\/editor of Writing Eco-Fiction and Heavy Weather\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An intelligent, urgent, white-knuckle ride through the brutal Canadian Arctic, this is a novel that will get you thinking, keep you guessing - and leave you reeling. Whitehead's vivid depiction of the hazards of ruthless extractivism couldn't be more timely - and if there's a Nerves of Steel Award, its heroine, Carrie Essler, would win it hands down.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Liz Jensen, bestselling author of The Rapture and The Uninvited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A page-turning disaster drama, White Road is also a moral re-examination of the climate crisis and our species' relentless need for more hydrocarbons. The author attends to the hour-by-hour twists in his plot, yet spliced to a forensic exploration of the human heart. He gives us a love letter to the extraordinary ice world of the Arctic: both its fragile beauty and its remorseless terrors. Before everything, the book strikes me as a singular, beautifully integrated achievement.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Mark Cocker, naturalist and author of One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarrie, a Scottish rescue swimmer out of her depth in the High Arctic. Ross, the owner of an oil rig with a guilty conscience. Amaruq, an Inuvialuit oil-rig worker caught between two worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStranded on the Arctic ice with a starving polar bear and a half-dead stranger, Carrie's left with nothing but deadly choices. Ross and Amaruq face their own crossroads. Lives hang on their decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the cruel Arctic to the corporate backrooms of shady Big Oil, White Road is an authentic and gripping eco-thriller of survival, battled out at the edge of everything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claret Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54956822069591,"sku":"9781910461808","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/5372363482868.jpg?v=1788890536","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/white-road-climate-fiction-eco-thriller-adventure","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}