DROUGHT
A Californian environmental disaster thriller
by Graham Masterton
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Pub Date Sep 01 2014 | Archive Date Jul 15 2014
Severn House Publishers | Severn House
Description
Ex-Marine Martin Makepeace only learned the truth of the maxim that you don’t know what you have until you lose it, the day his wife walked out on him with their two kids. Now, the social worker does his best to take care of those who need it most.
But good deeds mean nothing when the water just . . . disappears. It hasn’t rained for months, and now, in the height of summer, the taps run dry. And not, as they first suspect, because of a burst water main. In the deprived areas where Martin works, the water’s been intentionally cut off. And it’s his job, he discovers, to tell the families he cares for not to panic.
Martin soon has more problems than lack of water. His daughter is sick with fever. And as riots over bottled water start, Martin’s teenage son is framed, and arrested, for a terrible crime. Soon Martin is left with no choice but to take drastic action to save his family, while corrupt politicians try and use the situation to their advantage, with calamitous results . . .
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780727883995 |
| PRICE | $29.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Yuri A, Bookseller
As for me, you can always rely on Graham Masterton and his creative powers. And so, in this book we have - very strong, tight, suspense-filled and terrifying plot; interesting full-blood characters; ‘adrenalin-rush’ action scenes; slick dialogue; tight and quick narrative etc… Everything is very good in this novel.
Moreover this is the very rare case when the novel is the mixture of several different genres – you can find here elements of SF (classic British disaster novels, as J. G. Ballard), of action thriller with chases and fights, of suspense novel with dark atmosphere and doom, of ecological thriller, of horror thriller novel.
As always with Masterton’s disaster novels (for example Famine and Plague) in this book he explores human behaviour at it's worst when disaster strikes, and Masterton pulls no punches. The lack of water is very terrifying perspective and, unfortunately, can be too real. And these problems (human behaviour and lack of water) fills the book with the real dread. And I think that after finishing this book you’ll be more careful with water – maybe even treat it with respect.
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