The Iron Octopus: Book Two of Frozen Truth

The Iron Octopus: Book Two of Frozen Truth

The Iron Octopus Some secrets should stay buried. Others refuse to. November 1929. The stock market has crashed, but for archaeologist Victoria Whitmore and her husband Thomas, the real danger began months earlier—in the frozen Canadian Arctic, where they discovered Viking navigation routes that could reshape global power. Now the secret they buried has surfaced in Copenhagen. Erik Lindqvist, the Norwegian guide who saved their lives, is being hunted across Europe by forces that will kill to possess what he knows. When shipping magnate Cornelius Pemberton offers Victoria's family salvation in exchange for betrayal, she faces an impossible choice: save the people she loves, or protect knowledge that could start the next war. As they race Erik's pursuers from the universities of Scandinavia to the frozen depths of East Greenland, Thomas and Victoria discover they're caught between competing powers—corporate cartels that control governments, British intelligence still enforcing classified treaties, and Soviet agents building an Arctic empire. Each believes they have the right to control dangerous knowledge. All are willing to kill for it. In a hidden Viking site carved into the Greenland ice, eight centuries of accumulated wisdom awaits. But the true cost of protecting it will test everything Thomas and Victoria believe about duty, loyalty, and the limits of love. The frozen truth won't stay buried. And those who seek it won't stop until they possess it—or die trying.