When the deputy chairman of a worldleading oil company gets kidnapped in Hamburg Peter Blair is urgently called in to lead the rescue missionThe captured Dr Braunschweig is a wealthy and powerful man and a sizeable ransom demand seems certain So it seems very strange when all the kidnappers desire in exchange for their hostage is a certain 17th Century Arctic mapBut when the map is suddenly reported missing from its museum in Cambridge it becomes clear there is much more at stake than a valuable relic And with news that an oil expert has been murdered in the Arctic an old map from the past threatens to have global consequences for the futureDeath in a High Latitude is the final mystery starring the marvellous Peter Blair and JRL Anderson has saved his best investigation till last