The world had struggled with deadly winters for decades--killer stroms had taken thousands of lives. Now in the year 2000, it was in the grip of a new Ice Age,all because man had altered the weather to suit his own needs, not realizing the terrifying forces he had unleased. The weather machine he thought he had created had gone berserk.

Chicago was in the throes of a deathfreeze. Trapped inside a skyscraper by the killer ice outside, Tim Crocker and Joanna Sommers, investigative reporters, wondered why someone had attempted to kill Mark Wertman, a TV newsman with an interest in meteorology.

When they found out, they were onto the biggest story so far in the war against the weather.