The Ice Gods

In the novel “Ice Gods,” Allan Quoterman’s soul takes on the body of his distant Neanderthal ancestor. What can a person feel lying on a sacrificial stone, knowing that in a second his heart will be cut out with an obsidian knife? (“Daughter of Montesuma”) What can a dwarf, raised by a she-wolf, experience when he gazes into the endless, blinding cold whiteness? (“Ice Gods”) What would a person feel at the very brink of life and death? Only such questions captivate Ryder Haggard’s imagination.

Romance of extreme situations, love that tears at the very core, hatred that leaves only the victor on the surface! A world without half-tones and nuances—cruel, furious, and beautiful—the only world Haggard has. And in this novel, it is even more exposed and ruthless, primal—and therefore so close and understandable to a modern resident of this mad, mad, mad world!