Rating: It begins like a thriller. ‘When the storm came in it was unexpected and Thomas Myers was dropped to his knees. The air darkened in the distance. There was a roar and everything went white against him. It had a kind of violence he wasn’t prepared for. He wrapped his arms around his head and lay flat on the ice to keep from being hurled away.’ We are in the Antarctic, 300 miles away from any kind of civilisation. Three men have come to work at Station K for Geographic Information Services: Robert, who is an old hand, and Luke and Thomas, who are novice research scientists. The silence creates its own sound – ‘his ears were ringing from the lack of noise’.