The Trudeau Vector
By (Author) Juris Jurjevics
Allen & Unwin
Allen & Unwin
1st August 2006
Australia
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
813
Paperback
456
Width 110mm, Height 180mm
306g
In the forbidding climate of the Arctic Circle, metal cracks like glass, rubber shatters, plastic crumbles, and world famous scientists are dying horrific deaths - and no one knows why.
As the international team of scientists at the spectacular Trudeau Research Centre prepare for six months of unrelenting winter, three of their colleagues are found dead on the ice, their pupils missing, and their bodies contorted in ghastly, unnatural positions, hardened from the inside out. Cause of death: unknown.
Dr Jessica Hanley, the talented and unorthodox American epidemiologist, is summoned to the isolated station to investigate the cause of these grisly deaths before the unthinkable becomes reality.
Halfway around the world in Moscow, Admiral Rudenko, well past retirement age, is summoned to locate a submarine that has suddenly and inexplicably disappeared in the waters he once knew well - the Norwegian fjords. Ideally suited to this sensitive assignment - and conveniently expendable - Rudenko must locate and retrieve this rogue ship at any cost.
Their missions will converge explosively in the unforgiving extremes of the Arctic night. Brilliantly crafted and terrifyingly convincing, The Trudeau Vector delves into the precarious, volatile area where science and politics clash, with potentially disastrous results.
Juris Jurjevics was born during the Second World War in Latvia. His family spent five years in different refugee camps in Germany, until they emigrated to the USA. Jurjevics grew up in New York, served in Vietnam, and in 1968 began his career in the publishing industry. Since the mid-1980s he has been the publisher of the independent publisher Soho Press in New York.