A gruesome discovery in the wilderness above Algonquin Bay leads detectivesJohn Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote cabin that has served as anabattoir for a cold-blooded killer... But the woods hide other horrors andsoon a second body is discovered, naked and shrouded in ice. When one ofthe victims is identified as an American the Mounties have to be calledin, but it's the Canadian Secret Service that arouses the most mistrust.Is their interference due to a suspected terrorist link, or is theresomething even more sinister behind it? With Northern Ontario in the gripof an ice storm of once-in-a-hundred years severity, the woods take on aglittering, lethal beauty. And in this winter wonderland John Cardinalmust hunt down and confront a killer.