Darkness of the Ice

This was really a great vampire story - Lois Tilton is definitely one of my favorite vampire authors. No cheesey romance, just great horror!

The German High Command is planning a counter attack to throw the Allies back into the sea. For that they need bad weather, really bad weather to ground the Allied aircraft and give their men cover to move into position. They needed to know WHEN the bad weather would come. This means their weather station in Greenland had to send them weather reports and that made it important enough to be protected, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.Who would protect it? Who could stand the cold, who could stand the weeks of darkness out on the snow fields without going mad, and still have the energy to take on American patrols?Why, a vampire, of course...

This book was one of the best vampire stories I've read in a long time. Suspenseful and psychologically tense at the same time! Wolff, an SS officer, is also a vampire, and he is given a mission in the Antarctic, where the sun never shines in the winter. After reading this book, I immediately had to look for Lois Tilton's other vampire book, Vampire Winter, which shares similar themes and is also very good.