The Black Lead Claim

About this book

In February 2029, disgraced geologist Soren Vey is asked to return to Svalbard by Adaeze Mansaray, whose missing sister, polar biologist Dr. Yaba Mansaray, left behind a field notebook and coordinates no one can afford to ignore. Beneath Austfonna lies an unmapped cavity where thawing permafrost has exposed ancient methane pockets and preserved evidence of a forest that grew on Svalbard fifty-five million years ago. The discovery could transform climate science—and make a fortune for interests determined to control it. Soren is the one person Adaeze least wants beside her. Eleven years earlier, Yaba caught him falsifying mining samples and offered him a way back to honest work. Their first expedition forged an uneasy friendship beneath the ice. Then, during a disastrous 2027 survey, Soren made a choice that left Yaba's team behind when the caves began to fail. As Soren and Adaeze mount a perilous rescue mission through Nordaustlandet's collapsing ice, they are pursued by a corporate retrieval team and by the fast-changing Arctic itself. Told across the first expedition, the catastrophe that divided them, and the desperate present-day descent, The Black Lead Claim is an Arctic adventure about betrayal, survival, scientific truth, and the terrible price of choosing not to run.

Book details

Genres:

Adventure, Arctic thriller, Climate fiction, Literary suspense

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-16

Content rating:

PG-13