Watts Peter: Maelstrom
Maelstrom
Buch
- St. Martins Press-3PL, 01/2009
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780765320537
- Bestellnummer: 2152181
- Umfang: 382 Seiten
- Gewicht: 541 g
- Maße: 218 x 139 mm
- Stärke: 27 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 6.1.2009
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
This is the way the world ends:A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient microbe-voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction-and a handful of amphibious humans called rifters who'd inadvertently released it from three billion years of solitary confinement.
The resulting tsunami killed millions. It's not as through there was a choice: saving the world excuses almost any degree of collateral damage.
Unless, of course, you miss the target.
Now North America's west coast lies in ruins. Millions of refugees rally around a mythical figure mysteriously risen from the deep sea. A world already wobbling towards collapse barely notices the spread of one more blight along its shores. And buried in the seething fast-forward jungle that use to be called Internet, something vast and inhuman reaches out to a woman with empty white eyes and machinery in her chest. A woman driven by rage, and incubating Armageddon.
Her name is Lenie Clarke. She's a rifter. She's not nearly as dead as everyone thinks.
And the whole damn world is collateral damage as far as she's concerned. . . .