Cascadia: Sleeping Giant

Science said it was coming. A nightmare named the day. No one believed him.

Dr. Rob Elwood has spent twenty years studying the Cascadia Subduction Zone—the fault off the Pacific Northwest coast primed to unleash a magnitude-nine megaquake and a fifty-foot tsunami with mere minutes of warning. He knows what it will look like when it comes. He never expected to dream of it happening.

But the dreams come, and they keep coming: the same coastline, the same wave, the same date. So he defies what he thinks a true scientist would do. He goes public. He names the day.

His colleagues brand him a fraud. His wife stops speaking to him. The networks make him a punchline.

The day comes. The sea stays calm.

The morning after his ruin, Rob is still on the Oregon coast—humiliated, defiant, unable to leave the place he swore would be gone—when the dogs start barking, the gulls go silent, and the ground begins to move.

He had named the wrong day.

The science is real. The warning is real. The tsunami is already rising.

Perfect for fans of Boyd Morrison and Steve Berry—a scientifically grounded disaster thriller where one man's impossible prediction collides with the most dangerous fault line in North America.

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Praise for Cascadia

"Heart pounding." —Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of Where It Hurts

"Riveting, scary, and entirely believable…a compelling, page-turning thriller with the ring of truth." —Jerry Thompson, author of Cascadia's Fault

"This story…has a lot of reality in it. We know that one of these giants is coming, we just don't know when." —Prof. Chris Goldfinger (Emeritus), Oregon State University