Quebec burns, Alaska waits, and the Arctic is the prize.

A Canadian icebreaker vanishes in the Northwest Passage. Hours later, Quebec erupts in violent separatist attacks. To the world, the events look unconnected. They aren't.

Zeb Carter and his team are in Quebec, training with Canada's covert counterterror unit, JTF2, when the crisis explodes.

A missing icebreaker isn't their kind of mission.

But violence against allied nations is, and when they, alongside JTF2, are green-lighted, all bets are off.

Canada is one of the most peaceful countries in the world.

To keep it that way, Zeb and his crew will stop at nothing.

From the streets of Quebec City to Ottawa's corridors of power, across Nunavut's frozen wilderness and into Alaska, they and their JTF2 allies will face enemies deadlier than any before.

But even their combined lethal skills might not be enough.

And what's at stake isn't just Quebec.

It's the Arctic itself.

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