Snow Dragon

De: Cole Black

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

They came to test a route. They stayed because they had no choice.

October 2045. A Chinese naval task force enters the Northwest Passage, exercising legal transit rights through waters Canada once claimed as its own. The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) task force consists of a nuclear icebreaker, the Xuelong 3 (雪龙3) - "Snow Dragon 3", a collection of Arctic research vessels, and a last-minute addition: a Type 075 Yushen-class - Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) 40,000-ton amphibious assault ship/helicopter carrier with a thousand Chinese Marines who've spent six months training in the Caribbean sun. They're going home the long way in a vessel without an Ice Class.

Then the icebreaker stops. No distress call. No explanation. Just silence - and ice forming around ships that were never meant to stay.

As Canadian Rangers and special operations forces scramble to assess the threat, a British intelligence officer in Ottawa notices something that doesn't add up. The Americans know something they won't share. And deep in the frozen strait, men who trained for tropical beaches watch their ship groan under pressures it was never designed to withstand.

Neither side wants this confrontation. Neither side can back down. And the Arctic doesn't care about flags or politics - it only cares about who's prepared to survive.

For fans of Tom Clancy's technical precision and John le Carre's moral complexity.

Snow Dragon - Book 1 of 4 from the ICE BREAKER SERIES