SURGE
A Surge of Revenge
Hurricane and Madman Threaten Town in New Novel
Most scientist agree, it is not the winds of a hurricane that
can be the most deadly; it’s the storm surges. Surges can
be 50 to 100 miles wide, crashing the coastline,
destroying property and life in mass quantities.
Combine this with a disgruntled refinery worker bent on
revenge, and one gets the thrilling plot of Rod Tanner’s
exhilarating new novel, SURGE.
SURGE sweeps readers into an engaging story of
destruction told through the eyes of blue-collar worker, J.
D. Younger. Galveston, Texas is in for the storm of the
century, but it is not just the Category 5 bearing down on
the city that should have the townspeople worried. As
the 60,000 residents frantically flee inland, they are
unaware of a greater threat. An angry man is secretly
planning revenge. His plot, which could set off a chain
of events along the entire Gulf Coast with catastrophic
consequences, is on the scale of Hiroshima.
J.D.’s concerns are focused on his family, but others in
town have their own agendas. Tanner creates a cast of
characters that swirl around the story, bringing the
surging plot to a head through the dealings of a sleazy
developer, Lex Levin, and his self-centered architect
wife, Sarah. Mayor Collin Ramsey is trying to evacuate
his citizens while dealing with his gambling addiction.
Disc jockey Bonnie Sloan is the voice of Houston, but her
life is coming to a crossroads, while firefighter Jack Nolte
realizes that his life has suddenly been rendered
meaningless. In the midst of the hurricane and personal
catastrophes is a madman whose thirst for revenge may
blow away the whole Gulf Coast.
An exhilarating thriller, SURGE is a poignant character
study in the midst of a swirling mass of impending
destruction.
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