A Sea of Trouble-bookcover

By: Len Holden

A Sea of Trouble

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A storm hits London – no ordinary storm! This is the worst hurricane ever recorded by meteorologists. Storm Betsy is sweeping across the Atlantic after devastating the eastern seaboard of the USA, and now it’s heading straight for Britain.

Mark, Andy, and Fiona have been tasked with reporting on its destructive path. As massive waves hurtle along the Thames, destroying everything in their wake, can Mark save his mother from the wild river? The city is in grave danger, and the Prime Minister struggles to manage the enormous catastrophe brought on by climate change.

The storm wreaks havoc along the eastern coast before reaching the Thames, overwhelming the Thames Barrier and sparking fires along the riverbanks. Emergency services struggle in vain to contain the horrific impact on the lives of the people and the city’s infrastructure.

Based on expert research, this story reveals what could happen to London and other major coastal cities at sea level – a dire warning for the future!

Len Holden is a retired university lecturer and has written several academic books and numerous articles. He lived in Bulgaria for two years between 1967 and 1969 teaching English for the British Council. His next novel will draw on this experience living under a communist regime. He has also taught in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. He has worked with universities all over Europe, and Scandinavian universities in particular. In retirement, he has been occupied by writing fiction and local history.

Customer Reviews
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8 reviews
  • Ms C Pilsworth

    An easy-reading, super informative and entertaining thrill ride based on things that could actually happen. The London setting and deep attention-to-detail really bring home the reality of a terrible climate disaster happening in the UK and the horrific impact it could have. Totally engaging and absorbing with snappy and fast-moving chapters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

  • Liz Groom – Amazon

    Well researched, fast paced thriller. Worryingly believable.

  • Erica Brook - Amazon

    A page-turner of a book, which, although claimed as a work of fiction, is too near to the truth in terms of our under-resourced and thin-in-planning short-term government to ignore, when we recognise our changing weather patterns today. Len Holden’s short but weighty book is a thoroughly researched, chilling account which tells the story of ordinary people, in all walks of life - family, community, welfare, industry, education, where ultimately, at the centre is a government unprepared, therefore unable and unfit to cope with inevitable disaster. Engaging with one event in the life of a Guardian reporter, Mark Rattigan, each chapter charts lives and circumstances affected by the approach from America of the arrival of Storm Betsy, as its forces wreak damage on the east coast of Britain, until, ultimately, reaching the tidal weight of the Thames as it approaches its estuary, converging with Storm Betsy. Len’s account of mayhem and disaster as power and speed of water result in graphic images of deluge, explosion and fire, resulting in destruction and death of hundreds as ill equipped organisations attempt to reduce the effect of the disaster.

  • Elaine Carter

    I enjoyed your book very much .. if enjoy is quite the right word for the very sobering issues it explores!! I thought it was very realistic and a real page turner as the story progressed. Well done! I hope lots of folk read it and realise the situation we’re in!

  • M – Amazon

    Gripping from start to finish. Outstanding research and attention to detail. The use of short chapters puts the reader almost in real time. It describes events leading up to and through, a not so natural disaster and at the same time, exposes fictional, but too close for comfort governmental negligence.

  • Danny Reid – Quinns Book Shop

    An informative, eye-opening and moving exploration into what could befall us if we don’t do more to react to climate change written compassionately through the eyes of the people experiencing the most tragic consequences.

  • Mike Betteridge

    I don’t read books regularly but I found this book fascinating. I read it straight through. I couldn’t put it down.

  • CL

    I think it is a triumph the way the relative 'almost familiar reporting of serious incidents' that can keep us in our state of status quo as it were, just builds and builds to such a dramatic conclusion, drawing the reader in. To me it is just waiting to be a film for sure ...

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