Disaster Thriller

When the flood hits, America's East Coast is evacuated by every means possible. Brooklyn paramedic Travis Cooke had dreamed of reuniting his family, but not like this. Escaping New York with his son and the ex-wife he still loves - and her new husband - they find themselves evacuated on the luxury cruise ship, the Festival of the Waves. Hours later, the Festival lies dead in the open Atlantic: no power, no communications, and nowhere near enough food.

EARTHQUAKE. TSUNAMI. DISASTER. Off the coast of Australia, a massive submarine landslide triggers a tsunami of unprecedented scale, hurtling towards the iconic Queensland Coast. Thousands are in the path of destruction, and time is running out. For Amy Jacobs, it’s an ordinary morning—until she notices the ocean pulling back unnaturally during her walk along the boardwalk with her two young children. She knows something is terribly wrong. Mark Jacobs is across town getting a haircut when he receives the emergency alert: head for higher ground. With nothing but flat terrain in sight, his...

In the six months since the first case of a terrifying new epidemic - when a healthy baby wouldn't take a breath at birth - the country has been thrown into turmoil. The government has passed sweeping new laws to monitor all citizens. And several young pregnant women have vanished without trace. As a midwife, Lainey's mum Emma is determined to be there for those who need her. But when 17-year-old Lainey finds herself in trouble, this dangerous new world becomes very real. The one person who might help is Emma's estranged mother, but reaching out to her will put them all in jeopardy.

On a night out, four friends witness a stranger in trouble. They decide to do nothing to help. Later, a body washes up on the banks of the Thames - and the group realises that ignoring the woman has left blood on their hands. But why did each of them refuse to step in? Why did none of them want to be noticed that night? Who is really responsible? And is it possible that the victim was not really a stranger at all?

The day started out like any other; Diane and Jack started their morning routines and equipped their everyday carry items. Survival is for the prepared. But when disaster strikes the US, Jack's lifetime of preparing will be put to the test. Grabbing their two dogs and their bug-out bags, the duo must escape their hometowns and find a safe place to seek shelter. What really happened, and will Jack's years of prepping be enough to keep them all safe?

It was a day like no other for Sheriff Tom Cooper. Reports of animal attacks had been coming in since dawn, and it looked like they might never stop. Once the news channels began filling up with accounts of similar attacks from around the world, it became clear that this was no local phenomenon. For whatever reason and by whatever mechanism, it seemed that all of nature had chosen that one particular day to declare war on mankind.

The Romens, a fanatical domestic eco-terrorist group, launches a reign of terror, mass murder and widespread property destruction across America in order to achieve its ends. Claiming that existing environmental groups such as ELF, ALF, PETA and Greenpeace will fail to save the planet because they are not violent enough, the charismatic Savior, leader of the Resurrection of Mother Earth Now Society, targets those groups who he feels pose the greatest danger to the environment and its inhabitants: gas-guzzling vehicles, Big Tobacco and the nuclear power generation system in a three-phase ...

Elle Anderson waited until he was right on top of her. When he turned to yell for security, she shot her blade across the back of his ankle, cutting his Achilles tendon. The shock robbed him of his voice, and his body went crashing to the ground. She covered his mouth and slit his throat. His body convulsed, making it harder to drag him into the shadows, but she needed to buy herself some time.

A year ago, criminal defense attorney Carling Dent woke up in a conference room with a bullet wound, a murdered client and no memory of what happened. Since then, she's grown reckless. She's gained a reputation for representing defendants no one else will, and her own partners are beginning to question her conduct.

Jared Diamond's COLLAPSE inspired this alternate history that takes place during the American Civil War, and tells the story of eight people who come together after the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. Using the money they earned by tricking the U. S. Government into buying more Monitor-class ships, they attempt to escape the war and retreat to "paradise," Easter Island. However, this paradise has been transformed by the natives into a human ecological disaster and monument to pagan fertility rights and even cannibalism. Through the inventiveness and labors of the main ...

The Narrows are the most shark infested waters of the Caribbean, a three kilometer wide strait steeped in folklore that exists between the islands of St Kitts and Nevis, upon which ships full of people risk passage every day. In 1970 the Christena ferry disaster claims the lives of over 233 passengers, and a young man named Marcus is part of the daring rescue operation, battling abnormally aggressive sharks and stormy seas to rescue victims.

It starts quietly enough. A tick-tick-ticking you can hear in your ear. Tinnitus, you think. It will pass. But it doesn't. It gets worse—and then you pass it on. Before you know it, it spreads. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges: small outbreaks at first, but then suddenly it's a plague—and only days later it is already killing people. In an increasingly affected north London school, teacher Kit Chaplin is struggling to understand what he is witnessing. Even Lilly Slater, his partner and an eminent vaccinologist, can't work out what's happening.

How do you win a war when the worst battle is being waged inside your own mind? Pulled from the brink of death, CIA Operative Elle Anderson now faces the fight of her life. Physically and emotionally battered, she struggles to recover from her capture by terrorists but still has a job to do, and the clock is ticking. If she fails, we lose. The terrorist responsible for her torture is alive, and the network is regaining strength. It’s time to finish what she started. Rejoining her team despite reluctance from her medics, Elle moves to take control of her operation.

Human beings can survive for about forty days without food; for about three days without water; for about eight minutes without air. But they can’t live for one single second without hope. That’s what my dad taught us. He said we had to be prepared for what was coming. He said it was better to be ten years too early than one minute too late. That’s why he did what he did, on that morning.

In a future ice age, the rich live in warm luxury… …while the poor toil away in freezing misery. Until a girl with strange powers changes everything. Young Adara lives in Settlement Houston and survives by working at the HexPro Joule mine. She isn’t like the wealthy strolling through blizzards in their bikinis and first-class Symbiotes, which keep them balmy as a summer day. Her own life-support system is barely warm enough to get through her shift, but she’s tough, and mining heat cells provides her with a purpose. When a tragic mine accident imbues Adara with the ability to summon...

Cory’s family was his first concern. He had to get home, but Indiana was more than 2,000 miles away, and he had only one question: What dangers lie ahead? The warmth of the sun faded. When the temperature dropped, panic set swept the world. Fears of doom terrified the masses. Gangs roamed the streets. The girl he had helped had proved to be a valuable travel companion. Cory has no idea what Anna isn’t telling him.

Hollie has spent her whole life on the quiet south coast. It’s not been without its challenges, but then whose life is? So, when Hollie and her best friend, Parker, start a research project on the sea-wall defences, they don’t expect to find mistakes. Soon Hollie’s mum is at the very epi-centre of the storm and her reputation called into question. And in no time at all, it becomes clear that much more than her good name is at stake – their very lives are in danger...

Ungebremst rast die Innenministerin Dr. Patricia Kohlbeck in ihrem Dienstwagen in die Spree. Mit dabei: ihre Tochter Maja. "Du kannst niemandem trauen, sie stecken alle mit drin" ist das letzte, was ihre Mutter sagt, kurz bevor sie ertrinkt. Auch Maja stirbt - wacht jedoch wenige Stunden später unversehrt in einem Leichensack im Krankhaus wieder auf. Wie ist das möglich? Während Maja versucht, Antworten auf ihre Fragen zu finden, ereignet sich eine verheerende Naturkatastrophe nach der anderen.

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickoff is one commercial away. Then something happens, and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.

Mi stia a sentire. Ci sono più di 600.000 persone strette intorno a quel vulcano… Un boato, una fumarola che esce dal Vesuvio e sarà il panico: tenteranno di scappare, si schiacceranno, si spareranno pur di allontanarsi qualche metro in più… Faranno qualsiasi pazzia per procurarsi un mezzo veloce… Non ho fatto ancora la stima dei probabili morti, ma si tratta certamente di cifre con almeno quattro numeri… E se non schiodiamo subito questa protezione civile dal Department of Homeland Security, in questa emergenza Vesuvio i morti li provocherà non il vulcano, ma il governo.