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"A thrilling disaster adventure written and set in 1977 in which freak tidal surges in the North Sea cause London's biggest disaster - a massive flood. Waters rise to thirty feet high. Bankside power station explodes as the surges strike, causing a city wide power cut. Flood co-ordinator Derek Thompson struggles to control the chaos as the authorities dally over evacuation plans, whilst trying to save his wife who is trapped in the Underground as subway tunnels sink beneath the rising waters. Although the Thames Barrier has eliminated the likelihood of such a disaster occurring(for the time being . . .) this is still a very spectacular novel indeed! "
Nick Warren, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Disaster, natural or nuclear
Yes
Kind of disaster:
- flood
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- engineer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- none
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Misc setting
- moving train
- fort/military installation
- fancy mansion
- sewers/subways
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths?
- hundreds or more
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- poisoning
- dropped from large heights
- boiling
- frying (electrocuted)
- run over
- crushed
- flamed
- drowned
- impaled
- stampeded
- exploded into bits
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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