?This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.? -Stephen King 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,...

Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it?s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: ?Why don?t you swallow broken glass.? Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called...