A New York Times Notable Book “This book is simply put a modern classic. If you read it
you'll never forget it. Prophetic terrifying uplifting.” —Stephen King From the
bestselling author of Ohio a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching
collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity. 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.
