Not surprisingly, Nina has a sense of adventure and courage that more than matches that of Slater. Vane and his ‘born again’ brother survive as well as they can by stealing, lying, even searching for divine salvation, whereas Slater’s new ally, local mayor Nika Tincook refuses to give up on the people here, wanting them to relearn a sense of their Inuit past and work together for a future.
It twists together several strings of story, at the heart of which is this desolate and bleak island in the Bering Straits. The Romanov Cross is a thriller to make you stay up at night. It may be dead but with bodies exposed by storms and rising temperatures, nobody wants to take the chance of waking up the deadliest plague ever to afflict mankind. It is not known how well the virus will survive in a frozen host. These bodies are all that remains of a settlement wiped out by the Spanish Flu of 1918. Court martialed for putting the life of a local child above military bureaucracy, he is offered an escape from disgrace – the investigation of recently revealed remains on St Peter’s Island. Meanwhile, army epidemiologist Frank Slater is facing his own troubles. For now, he ignores his nightmare memories from the island, of wolves running and lanterns on the shore. Harley alone survives but when he returns to the Alaska mainland he is determined to return to the island, certain that there will be more riches buried with the dead. Within minutes the boat is at the bottom of the sea. When a storm blows a coffin into the nets of a crab boat off the coast of St Peter’s Island, Captain Harley Vane pries it open and exposes more than just an exquisite jewelled cross around the neck of the well-preserved corpse of a young man. With the seas warming and the ice melting, the frost-sealed cemeteries of the old Inuit settlements of the Arctic are under threat. Global warming is possibly even more dangerous than we thought.
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