Someday, a major hurricane will strike New York City. Government forecasters concede they’ll be unable to give the City much notice, while the City’s emergency planners admit evacuation is impossible. It’s a recipe for disaster on a scale to dwarf Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, potentially leading to the largest natural catastrophe in American history. In the new book Landstrike, author Ken Bass imagines in rich, realistic detail how New York will fare when the inevitable storm strikes.
Landstrike is the gripping story of Hurricane Nicole from its birth in the Atlantic Ocean to its catastrophic rampage up New York City’s Hudson River. Follow the deadly storm through the eyes of National Hurricane Center meteorologist Daniel Chen as he tracks the deadly storm’s path of destruction through the Caribbean, then realizes the threat it poses to New York, while the City’s unsuspecting residents go about their lives largely oblivious to the impending threat. After Hurricane Nicole lays siege to New York in a two-hour assault, Landstrike becomes an enthralling account of the horrific storm’s aftermath as residents, suddenly isolated from the world without electricity, food, water and even communications try to survive in Stone Age conditions. Told in riveting detail so true to life readers will need to remind themselves what they are reading isn’t true, Landstrike is mesmerizing, filled with fascinating characters and spellbinding events not easily forgotten
Richly-layered and engaging, Landstrike is packed with action and suspense that readers of thrillers and disaster stories will enjoy. At the same time, Landstrike issues a serious wake-up call to disaster relief experts and city emergency planners in all the major cities of the East Coast, few of whom have come to grips with the reality of the destruction they face when a major hurricane inexorably strikes.
ISBN13 (TP) 978-1-4415-1486-8
ISBN13 (HB) 978-1-4415-1487-5