The World in Winter

The Fratellini Winter they had called it, after the Italian scientist who had first detected the decline in solar radiation.

The seasons pass and the cold bites ever harder. The Thames freezes over, stocks of food and fuel run low, and London falls under martial law. That first arctic winter, it seems, was only the beginning, the herald of the incoming Ice Age.

Andrew Leedon has problems of his own. Forced out of his marriage, he joins the exodus of the privileged few with the necessary inf...