Publisher's Synopsis
An action packed adventure set amidst the consequences of the melting of the Antarctic ice cap. Filled with action, adventure, intrigue and a pleasant pinch of romance. The story is set primarily in Antarctica, Tasmania and on the east coast of Australia.
The book follows the lives of four groups of people in their struggles to survive after a huge tsunami, caused by the massive Ross Shelf ice sheet sliding into the Southern Ocean, sweeps across the Pacific. The tsunami leaves a trail of death and destruction, after which the water levels of Earth's oceans begin to rise rapidly, causing cataclysmic disaster as well as massive political and social upheaval.
As cities and nations are flooded the fabric of civilisation is torn as groups and individuals struggle for survival in a terrifying new world. The four parallel story lines are exciting, predictive and thought provoking.
The author has degrees archaeology and history with a particular interest in paleo-climatology and the effects of the end of the last Ice Age on the humans of ten thousand years ago. He has transposed known archaeological information about rapid sea level rises onto the modern world to create an exciting, informative and relevant novel that attempts to answer the question of what would really happen to you and I if the Earth's sea levels rose six meters or more.
The stories.
Katherine Brown is a climatologist based on Antarctica, when the Ross Ice shelf shatters and slides into the ocean she and her team must traverse the rapidly changing Antarctic terrain to reach the relative safety of a base camp at Cape Colbeck; only a few will survive the trek through ice and mud and snow.
Peter Taylor and his family survived the first wave but not the second. Alone and homeless he is forced to scavenge in flooded supermarkets for food and avoid roving gangs of bandits that quickly establish themselves as social norms disintegrate to be replaced by anarchy. He meets a mysterious and alluring woman, who, like himself, finds herself thriving in the post apocalypse world.
Jeremy Jones is an archaeologist with a particular interest in Paleo- climatology. He is fired from his prestigious position at the Queensland University for predicting massive sea level rises even as his predictions, and much worse, come true.
Karen Whitaker had been partying with girlfriends when the first tsunami tore through Hobart. Trapped overnight in the remains of a collapsed building, she emerges to discover a ruined city strewn with the bodies of the dead, the dying and the injured. Living in a refugee camp she does what she must to make the best of the new world.
