Charles Yelland was leading the perfect life until a faked photograph appeared in a newspaper on the morning of his oil company's annual general meeting showing an exploration rig in Antarctica. After this, he didn't think that his world could get an... Read more

Charles Yelland was leading the perfect life until a faked photograph appeared in a newspaper on the morning of his oil company's annual general meeting showing an exploration rig in Antarctica. After this, he didn't think that his world could get any worse – he was seriously wrong. Within hours, presidents and prime ministers were telephoning each other to find out whether oil had actually been discovered and whether the sixty-year-old Antarctic Treaty, with its suspension of territorial claims, was now dead. What would countries and companies do to gain access to an area one and a half times the size of the United States of America with eleven per cent of the earth's land mass and minerals? The Tip of the Iceberg is a thought-provoking and gripping story of kidnap and intrigue. Less