TORNADO - Deadly Shore: An Extreme Weather Disaster Survival Thriller - Couverture souple

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Calloway, James

 
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Synopsis

Forty thousand tourists. One road out. Zero warning.

Labor Day weekend is supposed to be the financial crescendo for the barrier island town of Harbor Point, New Jersey. The beaches are packed, the boardwalk is humming, and the local politicians are determined to keep the tourist cash flowing. But out over the anomalously warm Atlantic waters, nature is composing a catastrophe.

When a massive, cycling supercell begins spinning off a linear wall of violent waterspouts, head lifeguard Ryan Keller recognizes the immediate, lethal threat to the oblivious crowds. With the town's outdated warning sirens failing instantly under a sudden power grid collapse, a beautiful summer afternoon dissolves into a ground-scraping hellscape of sand, shrapnel, and roaring vortexes.

Cut off from the mainland and running out of time, Ryan teams up with Jenna Vale, a relentless NOAA meteorologist tracking the unprecedented atmospheric shift. Together, they must shepherd a fractured band of injured survivors through a compounding nightmare of flooding streets, cascading electrical explosions, and a burning beachfront resort.

But the initial impacts were just the prelude. As the atmosphere reorganizes for one final, multi-vortex assault, a half-mile-wide wedge tornado locks onto the center of town. In a community engineered exclusively to handle hurricanes, a hundred and forty-three souls are about to find out if a concrete drainage underpass is enough to save them from the absolute eye of the wind.

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