The Flood

by David Sachs

Overview

Every civilization has a flood story. None of them saw it coming.

"AN EPIC THRILLER AND REMARKABLE WORK OF ART"--Matthew Mather, bestselling author of CyberStorm and The New Earth Series. 

When the Flood hits, America's East Coast is evacuated by every means possible.
Brooklyn paramedic Travis Cooke had dreamed of reuniting his family, but not like this. Escaping New York with his son and ex-wife--and her new husband-- they find themselves evacuated on the luxury cruise ship, the Festival of the Waves.

Hours later, the Festival lies dead in the open Atlantic: no power, no communications, and not nearly enough food. Thousands of refugees on board find themselves alone in a big ocean.

Now, the escapees from the Flood face a new challenge: survive until rescue comes, as days turn to weeks, and the panic rises like the seas. Travis finds behind each door an unexpected new side to the Festival, but no way out. How far would you go to protect your family? 
 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940180073488
Publisher:	David Sachs
Publication date:	10/13/2024
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	419 KB

About the Author

Award-winning author DAVID SACHS lives in Chelsea, Quebec (Canada), in the woods of Parc du la Gatineau. He is a long time feature writer for magazines and major metro newspapers, writing on politics, culture, society and the outdoors, covering everything from anti-globalization riots to Amazonian shamanism, and from homelessness to hitchhiking. His feature film, The Last Party, is in development with Bunk 11 Pictures.


He is a father, an avid outdoorsman and rugby old boy, and a former physicist and Canadian Forces reserves officer. David is heavily involved in political and social causes, and a deadly boogie woogie piano player.


www.davidsachs.com

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Editorial Reviews

2015-03-26
A disabled cruise ship, packed with refugees and fleeing a tsunami, finds anything but smooth sailing in Sachs' thriller. The Festival, a New York City-docked passenger liner, is repurposed as a rescue vessel after an earthquake unleashes "major tsunami waves." Several countries in South America, as well as the Florida Keys and its southern panhandle, have been flooded, and the Big Apple is forecast to be next. In the ensuing panic, Travis Cooke, a paramedic, manages to make it onboard the Festival with his son, his ex-wife, and her new husband. Order aboard the ship inexorably breaks down, though, after cellphone communication is cut off and the ship is attacked by escaped convicts who've taken over a Navy vessel: "You think you have a handle on the things that can kill you," one passenger wryly remarks. "I certainly didn't bet on the tsunami-pirate double." Sachs' debut novel is an unremittingly grim disaster adventure that's part Ship of Fools (1965) and part Lord of the Flies (1954)—and all too briefly, part Die Hard (1988), when another passenger, professional wrestler Mighty Lee Golding, takes on a couple of the marauders. (As the story unfolds, he lives up to his reputation as wrestling's "most-hated bad guy.") Sachs keeps the story moving full-steam-ahead, balancing his fleshed-out portraits of memorable characters with visceral action scenes. Meanwhile, its shattering worldview is best summed up by this bleak dialogue exchange: "Life is horrible.…It's what we made." The author renders the Festival itself so vividly that the doomed ship becomes another character in the story. There are minor typographical errors ("though" instead of "thought") and a tendency to fleetingly drift into extraneous description; one chaotic scene, for example, unnecessarily describes the bar on which a man is standing. However, these flaws aren't enough to sink the proceedings. An engaging and ultimately devastating disaster novel.

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