Unspoiled. Uninhabited. Under attack...On the wind-swept, ice-covered continent of Antarctica, Roger Gordian's UpLink Technologies has established a scientific research facility called Cold Corners. But its testing of potential robotic landing craft for use on Mars is disrupted when one of the rovers disappears-along with the repair team sent out after it.Fear of discovery has prompted a renegade consortium-that is illegally using Antarctica as a nuclear waste dump-to wipe out the UpLink base. Now, the men and women of Cold Corners have only themselves to rely on as the consortium mounts its decisive strike against the ice station-and the final sunset plunges them into the total darkness of a polar winter...