Walt has always had a penchant for finding trouble (or maybe trouble is always finding him). After his service in Vietnam, Walt and Henry find themselves working for an oil company in the frozen Alaskan tundra. While on a mission away from oil company headquarters, Walt, Henry, and crew encounter a polar bear. Walt turns to Henry. "How fast can polar bears run?" "Twenty-five miles an hour." "And how fast will this thing go?" "Twenty-four miles an hour, but we can do it longer...I think."

Encountering a polar bear is bad enough, but there is something strange about this malformed creature. And it never helps when a storm rolls in, trapping the crew in the vicinity of a terrifying animal that begins picking off crew members one by one, not for survival but for pleasure.

This fast-paced, bone-chilling, and at times side-splitting short novel is well worth the read.