At some point in the future, the island will come apart and a mega-tsunami will stream across the Atlantic at the speed of a jet plane, obliterating the entire Easter Seaboard of the United States, killing more than forty million people, thirteen percent of the U.S. population. And hundreds of millions will be injured, one out of every three Americans. It will cause trillions of dollars in damage. The entire U.S. economy will be disrupted for years, if not permanently crippled.
This is not speculation. This is a fact, made more horrible when you consider these estimates are based on today’s population figures and currency evaluations. It may happen in one thousand years, or it may happen tomorrow… but it will occur.
As our natural world is increasingly influenced by Man — through global warming, pollution and overpopulation — it is not inconceivable that someone, at some point, will intentionally disrupt our planet on a monumental scale. Indeed, one could claim global warming is a form of eco-terrorism, since most scientists are well aware of the consequences of co2 emissions, and yet we continue to burn fossil fuels with abandon.
THE WAVE may be a work of fiction. But it is not beyond the realm of possibility.
J.G. Sandom
About the Author
Born in Chicago, raised and educated throughout Europe, and a graduate of Amherst College (where he won the Academy of American Poets Prize), J.G. Sandom founded the nation’s first digital ad agency (Einstein and Sandom Interactive — EASI) in 1984, before launching an award-wining writing career.
The author has written six thrillers and mysteries including The God Machine, Gospel Truths, and The Hunting Club, plus three young adult novels under the pseudonym T.K. Welsh, including The Unresolved and Resurrection Men. He is currently working on a sequel to THE WAVE called THE PLAGUE.
Visit the author at www.jgsandom.com.
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