'This is a book with everything – a great hero, gory murders and Nazis. It kept me guessing to the very end. The Perfect Thriller. ' Andrew Roberts.

When the frozen corpse of an American serviceman named Ferris Clark is found in the Greenland icecap, forensic archaeologist Jack Raven is hired to investigate.

Raven is the world’s leading expert in forensics and he is suspicious from the outset. Not only is the World War Two corpse naked, but it is perfectly preserved. And that’s not possible.

As Raven investigates the mystery of Clark’s final hours, he stumbles across the sinister and intertwined story of a senior Nazi officer. He also discovers that those around him know more than they are admitting. And they are trying to conceal the truth.

Raven soon finds himself caught in a race against time: there is a murderer on the loose and Raven alone can prevent further killings.

But he can only do this by solving the greatest riddle of all. How did Ferris Clark die? And why?

The answer those questions may cost him his life.

Giles Milton is the internationally bestselling author of eleven works of narrative history. His books have been translated into 25 languages. His most recent publication is Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World, the tale of Berlin in the immediate aftermath of the World War Two, the sectors of the city and the Berlin Airlift.

Praise for Giles Milton:

‘A wonderfully clear and digestible account. . . The devastation wrought on Berlin by the Russians is vividly described by the British historian Giles Milton in a series of sharp vignettes. . . as gripping as any thriller.’ Craig Brown,Mail on Sunday (Checkmate in Berlin).

'A magnificent story, brilliantly told.' Anthony Horowitz (Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare).

‘To write a book which makes the reader, after finishing it, sit in a trance, lost in his passionate desire to pack a suitcase and go, somehow, to the fabulous place – that, in the end, is something one would give a sack of nutmegs for.’ Philip Hensher, The Spectator (Nathaniel’s Nutmeg).

‘A sheer pleasure to read.’ Susan Chira, The New York Times (Samurai William).

'A romping tale of 18th-century sailors enslaved by Barbary seafarers and sold to a Moroccan tyrant. It has all the usual Miltonian ingredients: swift narrative and swashbuckling high-drama laid on a bed of historical grit.' Benedict Allen, The Independent (White Gold).

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