Overview
A young girl loses her father to a hurricane near the end of WWII. She grows up to fight hurricanes for the government. When Operation Stormfury is closed down, she continues herfight and accidentally causes one of the biggest storms in history to head toward the US Coast. Then the storm, and her husband, a US Navy pilot, disappear off the coast of Bermuda. In 2006, they both come back...Synopsis
A young girl loses her father to a hurricane near the end of WWII. She grows up to fight hurricanes for the government. When Operation Stormfury is closed down, she continues herfight and accidentally causes one of the biggest storms in history to head toward the US Coast. Then the storm, and her husband, a US Navy pilot, disappear off the coast of Bermuda. In 2006, they both come back...
Publishers Weekly
As a child, Andrea Jamieson watches her father die in a hurricane. As a grimly determined young woman running a government storm-fighting project, she falls hard for flyboy Phil Wicks, a retired navy pilot who figures dropping silver iodide on hurricanes beats working for the airlines. The two make a great team at work and at home until Phil flies out into a monster storm that vanishes in the Bermuda Triangle, taking him with it. Those who think of Wilson (The Temptation of Blood) as a horror writer may be surprised by the tender tone of this unabashed descendant of 1940s pulp tales. Tugging heartstrings with the expertise of a master puppeteer, Wilson, a former naval technician, adds plenty of authentic touches but never overwhelms the reader with details. The clean prose, romance and fantasy elements, heart-pounding scenes of man against nature, and topical currency (thankfully not overplayed) will appeal to a wide variety of readers, which makes the overblown YA-style cover all the more unfortunate. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.