Deluge

ondon faces the worst disaster in its history It was to be the day the American President drove in state through the streets of the UKs capital city. But the lethal combination of a gigantic freak storm and an unusually high tide launch a devastating thirty-foot surge of water up the Thames. By the middle of the morning Londons streets are already under several feet of water and the level is still rising. What follows is a catastrophe on an unimaginable scale. Homes are swept away by an unprecedented wave of destruction. A power station explodes like a bomb. Parts of the city are flooded to a depth of twenty feet. Countless lives are lost. And there is yet more water to come. Told with chilling and rigorous detail, Deluge is a terrifyingly convincing imagining of Londons ultimate nightmare scenario. Read it if you dare! ____________ A classic of the disaster genre ALISTAIR YOUNG Cataclysmic SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Another TOWERING INFERNO DAILY TELEGRAPH See more