Against the Odds: Surviving the World's Worst Tsunami and Overcoming Trauma

‘Powerful and profound. Against the Odds reads like a thriller.’
- Glenn A. Baker

When the world’s deadliest tsunami hit the southern coastal town of Tangalle in Sri Lanka on the morning of December 26, 2004, travel journalist John Maddocks was in a remote beachside cabana. He awoke from a deep tropical sleep to the roar of a 10-metre high wall of water that smashed him around the room and left him fighting for life near the ceiling. Buildings were destroyed around him and the occupants washe...