![]() Soon he will reach the point of no return - when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. ![]() ![]() ***Soon he will see the last of the sub, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. ![]() One by one, his companions are forced to leave. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. ***Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. So when he's offered the chance to be the wireless operator on an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Twenty-eight-year-old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. 243 pages plus three-page author's note to rear. Extremities of dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed. ***In a near fine monochrome-illustrated dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £12.99. Black and white night-arctic-snow-illustrated front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. ![]() ***Near fine in black boards with silver titles to spine. "1" on the publisher's copyright page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. ***First impression of the true first edition with full number-string sequence including the no. Dark Matter was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. ![]()
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