Ediciones B 2015

Shackleton’s great expedition to the South Pole. More than a novel—an adventure.

The new novel by the author of Augmented Reality and Holocaust Manhattan. With its epic and thrilling tone, it recalls the classic adventure novels.

London, August 1914. After failing twice in his attempt to reach the South Pole, Ernest Shackleton sets out to raise funds for the one feat left to accomplish: crossing Antarctica. Yet the rumors of war are unmistakable, and the expedition seems doomed before it even begins. Not far from his office, in the East End, Zara Foley is hiding. A terrible, unforgivable act haunts her, along with the entire London police force. Fleeing misery, hunger, and the gallows, she collides with Shackleton… and a possible escape from the noose.

What the Ice Traps is an adventure novel that carries the reader from early 20th-century London to Antarctica, aboard the last great romantic expedition of mankind—one in which some of its participants found more than just themselves.

What the Ice Traps is about resilience, the thirst for conquest that has driven us as a species, set in the most hostile of environments. You will feel cold, hunger, and despair—but also hope.
An extraordinary novel. Luis Endera