9780712614771

Flood

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780712614771

Hardcover|9780712614771


Overview

Flood is a devastating and compulsive thriller that reads like fact. The country has suffered floods on an unprecedented scale in recent years, but have we seen the worst, an inundation that threatens millions of lives? Doyle's vision is incontestable, backed up by over twenty-five years of research. Flood is the disaster novel of today. A storm rages over the north of Britain, a troop carrier founders in the Irish Sea, flood indicators go off the scale, the seas are mountainous and a spring tide is about to strike the East Coast. Air sea rescue and military personnel struggle to save lives all down the caost. The worst is yet to come. When the storm reaches the south the two forces of wind and tide will combine and send a huge one-in-a-thousand tidal surge up the Thames. But surely London is safe: the Thames Barrier will save the capital from disaster as it was intended to do? The river is a titanic presence by now, higher than anyone has known it, and the surge thunders towards the Barrier. Scientists begin to talk of the possibility of overtopping. Can fifty feet high gates be overwhelmed by a wave? Then there is an explosion the size of a small Hiroshima: a supertanker is ablaz

ISBN-13

9780712614771

ISBN-10

071261477X

Weight

1.50 Pounds

Dimensions

6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 In

List Price

$29.99

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

384 pages

Publisher

Random House UK

Published On

2002-09-01



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