VOSTOK

Novel. This sequel to The Loch takes place in East Antarctica, the coldest and most desolate place on earth. Two and a half miles below the ice cap lies Vostok a 6,000-square-mile liquid lake more than 1,000 feet deep. Marine biologists journey into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life-forms long believed extinct--and an object of immense power responsible for the evolution of modern man.