Tau was a powerful land with incomparable wealth that had no parallel. The people of the land were quite satisfied with whatever they had achieved over the centuries. Then their wealth was stolen by a pirate who just vanished into thin air. For decades the people of Tau have tried to track down the criminal who just looted everything and destroyed their land forever. From one planet to another, they have searched every corner of the universe and no sign of the pirate has been found.
Then on one occasion, they get a unique signal and they think that they have found the missing person. Thus for the sake of revenge and the wealth which belonged to them in reality, the people of Tau started marching toward the earth. They had more than one thing in mind when they started their voyage toward the earth. Here on earth, McGill is given the assignment to find the missing wealth so that the war can be avoided.
McGill goes from planet to planet and at last, he reaches the Ice World where your biggest enemy is the climate of the planet. With cold darkness everywhere, finding wealth and the looter is not an easy thing to do. B.V. Larson’s novel is narrated by Mark Boyett at this point. Just like in City World and Death World the narrator has played a positive role in this novel.
The feelings are always best portrayed when a novel has a great narrator. The portrayal of the Ice World is the real deal here. One can start feeling the cold when he listens to Mark’s narration.