02012cam a2200265 i 4500 616151915 TxAuBib 20230117120000.0 220419s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982123093 hbk. 1982123095 hbk. (OCoLC)1311360349 TxAuBib rda Markley, Stephen,. The deluge : a novel / Stephen Markley. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022. 880 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters--a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity's last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have."--Provided by publisher. 20230117. Climatic changes Fiction. Novels.