Alaska is a great place to visit and a bad place to die
It is said that when the first snow of early winterthe "termination dust"starts to fall, it's time for visitors to leave Alaska's wonders behind.
For some, it's already too late.
Jim Hampton's Yukon vacation takes a turn for the worse when he discovers a prospector's diary from the 1800s. And it dies when the rugged outdoorsman is arrested for the gruesome slaying of a controversial ex-Senator. But Alex Jensen isn't convinced of Hampton's guilt. And the dedicated state trooper is ready to track the bitter truth through the treacherous snows of the Yukon wildernessand in the pages of a mysterious, hundred-year-old journal, which describes crimes remarkably similar... and deadly.