The Glacier Lie

In the winter of 1994, at the remote Novavian Antarctic research station Hekla, the annual supply ship fails to arrive. Trapped by ice and cut off from a homeland mired in a sovereign debt crisis, the multinational crew receives a single, chilling radio transmission: a notorious war criminal, Konrad Voss, is hiding among them under a new identity. If he is not surrendered, no relief will come. As paranoia festers and resources dwindle, the crew begins to believe that the quiet, scarred biologist Leopold Hartmann is the fugitive. But the real Voss—now calling himself Albin Sorensen—has orchestrated every suspicion, weaving a seamless lie that is simply too convenient for anyone to resist. Told in sharp, fragmented prose echoing the psychological violence of Joyce Carol Oates, The Glacier Lie explores how history’s gravest injustices are born not from malice, but from the desperate, collective hunger for a story that makes sense.