They took the job to escape the world They didn't expect the world to end. Kasker Rampart: a derelict refinery platform moored in the Arctic Ocean. A skeleton crew of fifteen fight boredom and despair as they wait for a relief ship to take them home. But the world beyond their frozen wasteland has gone to hell. Cities lie ravaged by a global pandemic. One by one TV channels die, replaced by silent wavebands. The Rampart crew are marooned. They must survive the long Arctic winter, then make their way home alone. They battle starvation and hypothermia, unaware that the deadly contagion that has devastated the world is heading their way... - from Amazon.com
This is not your normal 'survival of the end of the world' type of story. It centers around six characters of a crew on a derelict oil rig in the Artic Circle, and tells of how they survive being stranded on the rig as some sort of world-wide epidemic runs rampant. There is no explanation of the epidemic, but leaves the body to become what many would call zombie-like, but not exactly what we consider zombies. Great easy reading story, that Baker takes in some unexpected directions, leaving an ending that I would not have guessed. Great action, captures some of the emotion that solitude could bring out in a person, and the need to fight on at all costs for life.
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