The Arabs were trying to up the ante, and a prolonged oil embargo was imminent. A vile terrorist organization, aware of the impending embargo and wanting to punish the United States for imagined crimes, attacked the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Phoenix Force was flown to the barren, ice covered North in the dead of winter. If the fanatics were not exterminated, the pipeline - America's industrial jugular - would be severed and the nation would collapse. Phoenix Force was on a collision course with the terrorists. Those who died would be the lucky ones. And the survivors? They faced the blizzard of the century. . .