“The Flood,” a brilliant climate dystopia by novelist Stephen Markley

Radical environmental movements, dictatorial shift of power and extreme climatic events… The breathtaking story of an immediate future, by Stephen Markley, an American author to follow.

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In the first chapter, researcher Tony Pietrus defends his theory of a neglected climate threat at the bottom of the oceans. A little difficult, but it works. The approximately 1,000 pages confirm that the American Stephen Markley knows how to be extremely rigorous while mastering the art of page turnersthese books that we never put down. He also admits to having been early influenced by Stephen King (in particular by the pandemic novel The scourge).

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