During WW2 the Nazis conducted horrendous genetic experiments to try and breed a perfect race of super humans.His search for the secret Superman Virus, leads FBI agent Joshua Brookes to the crash site of a downed WW2 plane that had lain undetected in a overgrown field for 60 years. He finds the plane empty, but suspects the pilot survived, as the farmer who discovered the plane died in a particularly gruesome way.When she meets Julian Ritter on the side of the road, Angelika Heinmann, a university student on holidays, is unwittingly drawn into a nightmare world. The last thing Julian remembers is crashing his plane into a field as the Allies advanced across Europe, trying to get the Superman Formula to Berlin.On the other side of the world The Hunter, a dangerous and elusive hit-man, also decides to follow the trail of the newly awakened pilot.The neo-Nazi movement's leader, the charismatic and strangely familiar Dr Glauer, also has visions of a new race of super-beings, and will stop at nothing to get his hands on the formula.The Empire of Ice is an action-packed adventure spanning 60 years - with a race to unravel a mystery that could spell the end of the world as we know it.