Adam Baker

Una enorme plataforma petrolera medio abandonada y en ruinas, atracada en un remoto lugar del océano Ártico, está a punto de ser cerrada. Una tripulación de unas quince personas es la encargada del mantenimiento básico en la últimas semanas de funcionamiento. De pronto, la existencia en este gélido y aparentemente tranquilo páramo se convertirá en un infierno. Desde su remota posición escuchan que una siniestra pandemia mundial asola ciudades enteras. Lo que no acaban de asimilar es que este misterioso virus que se propaga por el mundo esté transformando a los seres humanos en una suerte de monstruos asesinos, casi indestructibles. Los gobiernos intentan dominar la situación, pero este degenera en cuestión de días y el mundo se colapsa. Uno por uno los canales de televisión que unen a la tripulación de la base con el resto de la civilización mundial dejan de transmitir.… (mais)

I originally thought this was a stand alone novel by Baker, but realized it is sort of a prequel to his other novel, OUTPOST. I didn't realize the connection until I was about a good third into the book. It started out well, gathering a group of mercs, and sending them on a mission to find a hidden cache of gold. Really? Hasn't that been done before? Needless to say, it was little better than I expected. I did finish the second half of the book, just because I wanted to see how it tied into OUTPOST. Baker's next book, TERMINUS, I hope is much better.… (mais)

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.… (mais)

Here's a question for you, my dear reader. What the hell or what the heck would you do if you got stuck at a refinery platform moored in the Arctic Ocean with a group of fifteen people some are strangers and some are friends,, and on the other side of the world, far from the place you are at, the world is slowly ending and destroying itself because of a global pandemic that has overtaken it? Would you stay there,with people who are about to go mad or insane because of the situation, or would you go back to that kind of world to try to save your family? Whatever the case, the author of this novel did quite an excellent job with this one, cause it's very intense and it has its truly great moments within it, some of which shall leave you breathless and others shall leave you wonder what's gonna come next. It's a truly great novel, but it's that kind of novel that you've really got to read the whole way through, or else you can't fully understand the full extent and the spectrum of its truly horrifying and terrifying story.… (mais)