"Max Flash, amazing escapologist and master illusionist, returns for a cool fifth mission. Max is dispatched to the Antarctic to investigate a distress signal from a ship that has been trapped by a sheet of rapidly forming ice, and whose crew has mysteriously vanished. Could the crew's disappearance be connected to the sightings of strange beasts in the area? Max's investigations soon lead him to a secret base deep beneath the Antarctic ice ..."-- Provided by publisher.