It all begins in 2016, when devastating storms strike London and other cities around the world. At first, people dismiss them as nothing more than extreme weather events. But it soon becomes clear that humanity is facing a true deluge—a flood on the scale of Noah’s.
As sea levels rise relentlessly, the world’s low-lying regions are swallowed one after another beneath the waters.
As scientists race to uncover the cause of the catastrophe, humanity finds itself in a desperate struggle for survival. Governments and ordinary people alike fight to save first their cities, then entire nations, and ultimately whole continents. Billions perish beneath the rising waters, and the most precious resource on Earth becomes a single patch of land high in the mountains.
In this sweeping disaster novel, Stephen Baxter once again explores the fate of humanity on an epic scale, telling the story through the eyes of characters whose lives are irrevocably transformed by the global cataclysm.
