"Many generations ago, the Wall was built to hold back the sea. A simple dam, it grew into a vast linear city, home to scholars, builders, and merchants. Northland's prosperity survived wars and unrest--and brought the whole of Europe together. But now darkness is falling. Days grow shorter, temperatures colder, and in the wake of long winters come famine, destruction, and terror. As a mass exodus to warmer climes threatens to fracture Northland, one man believes he can outwit the cold, and even salvage some scraps of the great civilization--before interminable gloom settles over the land; before the fires of war lay waste to an empire; before the ice comes..."--
- ISBN10 045124012X
- ISBN13 9780451240125
- Publish Date 5 November 2013 (first published 16 August 2012)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 10 March 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Roc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 484
- Language English