Stephen Markley Deluge Paperback Book

A New York Times Notable Book This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, youll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting. Stephen King From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity. In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of charactersa broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning ecoterrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning what will they sacrifice to salvage humanitys last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a onceinageneration novel that meets... | Stephen Markley Deluge Paperback Book