The Frozen Reckoning

When maritime lawyer Elias Vane loses a landmark environmental case against the powerful North Atlantic fisheries conglomerate Caribou Atlantic, his life implodes—career destroyed, reputation ruined, and a marriage left in ashes. Desperate to gather evidence of corporate malfeasance, he signs on as a deckhand aboard the factory trawler Osiris, only to discover a floating gulag where indentured laborers vanish into the freezing maw of the Barents Sea. Stranded beyond territorial waters where no law reaches, Elias must decide whether his quest for vengeance is worth becoming a monster himself. As the body count rises on the ice-slicked decks, the line between righteous fury and cold-blooded retribution blurs. Inspired by the atmospheric crime fiction of Reginald Hill, this is a tale of psychological excavation, where the slow burn of revenge consumes everything—until there is nothing left to rebuild.