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This book was previously published as The Palmyra Impact. Also published as THE TSUNAMI COUNTDOWN.
A minor seismic disturbance in a remote section of the Pacific causes barely a ripple of concern for Kai Tanaka, acting director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu. But when an airliner en route from L.A. to Sydney vanishes in the same location, Kai is the first to realize that a mysterious explosion has unleashed a series of massive waves destined to obliterate Hawaii. In just one hour, Kai will lose all he has ever known--including his wife and daughter-- unless he can save them from nature's most destructive force.
- Sales Rank: #97064 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-11-30
- Released on: 2010-11-30
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“A classic disaster novel. . . . Top-notch suspense.”
—Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author of Impact
“Expertly researched and gripping. . . . Boyd Morrison delivers the goods.”
—John Case, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Dancer
About the Author
Boyd Morrison is an author, actor, engineer, and Jeopardy! champion. He started his career working on NASA's space station project at Johnson Space Center, where he got the opportunity to fly on the Vomit Comet, the same plane used to train astronauts for zero gravity. After earning a PhD in engineering from Virginia Tech, he used his training to develop eleven US patents at Thomson/RCA. Boyd then managed a video game testing group in Microsoft's Xbox division before becoming a full-time writer. For non-fiction thrills, he enjoys white water rafting, skiing, scuba diving, and bungee jumping. Boyd is also a professional actor, appearing in films, commercials, and stage plays. In 2003 he fulfilled a lifelong dream and became a Jeopardy! champion. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife.
Excerpt. � Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
CHAPTER 1
MEMORIAL DAY
8:41 A.M.
CAPTAIN MICHAEL ROBB OPENED his eyes and found himself lying on the cockpit floor. Heat washed over him as if the airliner had been plunged into a blast furnace, and multiple warning horns blared. Blood trickled from his brow, stinging his eye. For a second he lay there, dazed, wondering what had happened. Then he remembered. The impact.
He had just returned to the cockpit, swearing off coffee for the rest of the trip. It had been his third trip to the lavatory, and the flight from Los Angeles to Sydney wasn’t even halfway over. His copilot, Wendy Jacobs, a good twenty years younger than he, had smirked at him but said nothing. He had been about to climb back into his seat when a streak of light flashed by the airliner’s starboard wing.
Robb thought it was a lightning strike from the storm they were flying above, but then the plane was thrown sideways, as if batted away by a giant hand. A sonic boom blasted the plane, and he smacked into the bulkhead, his head and shoulder taking most of the blow.
He must have been out for only a few seconds. Though his mind was still fuzzy, his vision quickly came back into focus. Robb sat up and wiped the blood from his eye. The instrument panel was intact. Jacobs had disengaged the autopilot and grabbed the yoke, which she now fought for control. Robb pulled himself to his feet. He had no idea how badly he was injured, but he was moving. That was enough.
As Robb clambered into his seat, he glanced at the cabin differential pressure gauge. Its needle was pegged at zero. Explosive decompression.
Reflexively, he reached for the mask hanging to his left, years of training taking over. His shoulder protested the motion, and he winced in pain.
“Oxygen masks on, one hundred percent!” he shouted.
Robb pulled the mask over his head, and Jacobs did the same. The masks in the passenger compartment had already dropped automatically. He mentally raced through the possibilities for the blast. A terrorist bomb? Missile attack? Fuel tank explosion? To depressurize that fast, some of the passenger windows must have blown out, maybe an entire door. The aircraft was still flying though, so that meant the fuselage was intact.
With his attention focused on getting the airliner under control, there was no time for Robb to talk to the passengers. The flight attendants would have to deal with them. The best thing he could do for the passengers was to get the plane down to ten thousand feet, where there was breathable air.
He pushed the yoke forward and silenced the decompression horn, but another one continued to wail. The lights for the starboard engines flashed red, meaning both were on fire.
“Pull number three engine T-handle!” Robb barked out. He suppressed the panic edging into his voice.
Jacobs pulled the handle and pressed the button beneath it, extinguishing the fire. She glanced out the starboard window to make a visual check.
“Fire’s out on number three engine! Number four engine is completely gone!”
“Gone?”
“Sheared off from the pylon.”
Robb cursed under his breath. His 747–400 was certified to fly with only three engines, but with just the two port engines they’d be lucky to stay in the air.
He turned to Jacobs. Her face was ashen but otherwise professional.
“Issue the distress call,” Robb said.
Jacobs nodded, understanding the implications. Even if someone heard the radio call, it would make little difference. The best they could hope for was to report their position in case they had to ditch. She keyed the radio.
“Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! This is TransPac 823. We are going down. We are going down. We’ve lost both number three and number four engines. Our position is seventy-five miles bearing two four five from Palmyra VOR.”
No answer, just static.
“Activate the emergency transponder,” Robb said. He knew activating it was a useless procedure. They were beyond the range of any radar units.
“Setting transponder to 7700 in squawk emergency,” Jacobs replied.
As their rapid descent took the plane through thirty thousand feet, an unearthly glow bloomed within the cloud cover ten miles to their right. At first the clouds softened it, but then the light pierced them, shooting toward the stratosphere, for a moment brighter than the sun.
“What the hell?” Jacobs said.
A fireball rolled upward in the distinctive mushroom shape Robb had seen in countless photos. He gaped, mesmerized by the sight. Atomic weapons testing in the Pacific had been outlawed for years, and there were no volcanoes in this region of the ocean. What else could have caused such a massive explosion?
Whatever it was, the explanation didn’t matter.
“Roll left!” he yelled. Stabilizing the plane should have been his highest priority, but they had to get away from the blast zone.
“Rolling left,” came Jacobs’s response after only a second’s hesitation.
Robb just had to hope that he could ride out the shock wave and find someplace to land. They had passed over the Palmyra Atoll only ten minutes before, but the runway built during World War II had been abandoned decades earlier. Christmas Island, five hundred miles away, had the closest operational runway. Despite all the damage the plane had sustained, it was still flying. They might make it.
“Come on, you bastard!” Robb grunted as he strained at the controls.
The nose of the enormous plane came around slowly. Too slowly.
The blast wave from the explosion caught up with them and slapped at the plane from behind, heaving its tail up. A colossal crack of thunder hammered the aircraft. The windows shattered and wind howled through the cockpit. The number one engine was wrenched from its mounts, shearing half the port wing from the plane and setting the fuel tanks aflame. The plane plummeted like an elevator cut from its cable.
With two engines gone and another shut down, the airliner was mortally wounded. Thinking of the 373 men, women, and children in the plane—people who were his responsibility—Robb didn’t give up, but he had no more hope of flying it than one of the passengers. He battled the controls trying to level the plane, but it was a dead stick. Despite his efforts, the plane spun downward in a death spiral. By the time the airliner plunged through the lowest cloud layer, the altimeter read one thousand feet. For the first time in an hour, Robb could see the blue water of the Pacific.
Realizing that their fate was inevitable, Robb let go of the yoke and sat back. He held out his hand to Jacobs, who grasped it tightly with her own. Never much for religion, Robb nonetheless closed his eyes and found himself reciting the Lord’s Prayer. He was up to the words “Thy kingdom come” when the plane slammed into the ocean at over five hundred miles per hour.
� 2010 Boyd Morrison
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46 of 49 people found the following review helpful.
The 2nd Wave Is More Powerful and Bigger Than The First in the return of Rogue Wave, a fantastic thriller
By Thomas C. Dulaney
This incredibly fast-paced thriller first appeared in the Kindle Store in 2009, under the name "The Palmyra Impact." It was self-published by a totally unknown author, cost just a few dollars, and I thought I'd take a chance and sampled it. Liked that, bought the eBook.
Love it! So intense that, Kindle in hand, I was way beyond the edge of my seat by the middle of the book. I had to pace the house and read. Frankly, it was a huge relief to get to the end to see who survived and who didn't--no promises were made by the author.
Here's my review from June 2009:
A rip-roaring thriller, The Palmyra Impact (now Rogue Wave) tears off to a start with an asteroid's impact in the Pacific Ocean. The shock wave it triggers tests the tsunami warning system to its limits, and equally strains the nerves of the books' characters and its readers as disaster looms for the Hawaiian Islands.
Boyd Morrison's taut prose plummets the reader through a series of disasters, near misses and anguish for the fates of deftly drawn characters, some of whom readers will quickly take under their wings as new friends. As in all disasters, real or fictional, not all loved ones survive.
For sheer readability, thrills, plot complexity and plain old nail-biting fun, Morrison's book earns a place on the top shelf among thrillers of the year.
Now, in 2010: Simon and Schuster, impressed by Morrison's ebook sales for this book and two others, including The Ark, now for sale once more in the Kindle store, is now Morrison's publisher.
I'm re-reading Rogue Wave after over a year. Even though I know how it turns out, I am pacing again. Boyd's prose delivers relentless action.
A must read book for anyone who loves a nail biter of a thriller.
I think, based on his three books published--all of which I thoroughly enjoyed--that Boyd will one day reach the uppermost ranks of thriller writers. I think he belongs there right now, but the rest of the world of thriller lovers will just have to catch the wave when then do.
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
VERY good and exciting book!
By Jason Frost
First: believe everything you've hear about how incredibly fast this book is. Second: believe everything you've hear about how incredibly fast this book is. There are some books that are fast reads; `Rogue Wave' will make you read fast! It literally drags you from page to page because it's that type of non-stop action reading. I literally had to physically slow down because I was moving so fast. This book deserves 100% of all the over the top praise it is getting. I was wondering myself what in the world could have caused such a wave, and when I found out... man!
The beginning was full throttle as Kai (love that name) has to determine if there is a tsunami, how powerful it is if there indeed is one, and do they need to evacuate. I laughed at the politics and how, no matter WHAT the emergency, politicians have to bear their 9-headed Hydra. Always and forever I guess. My only beef came near the late-middle of the book. I love disaster/annihilation novels, always have. What drives me crazy are the stupid heroics of the people in them. I know, I know, I know I'm Mr. Heartless. ' But I found that in this book, it drove me bonkers because it was one right after the other after the other after the other! I mean come on! All jokes aside, it did seem like a bit much for the "I'm going to save her/him", or "what was that noise, I need to save someone else". Either heed the warning or die idiots.
So that was a slight hiccup for me. The ending however... thrillers aren't supposed to be emotional right? Can we agree on that? I mean emotions are for books like `Lovely Bones', `Flowers for Algernon', any boring book that Oprah picks, or book #7 in the `Dark Tower' series. Not a book about a freaking killer wave. Apparently Boyd missed a board meeting because he damn sure didn't get that memo. Two huge things happened that caught me totally unawares and left me and my heart considering a lawsuit. Simply put, I loved this book. Get one for yourself, get one for your friend, get one for your enemy, get one for your wife, get one for your weekend girlfriend, and throw one in every stocking of your book lover friends this Christmas. An incredible sophomore (I think) book by Mr. Morrison.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Another thriller from Boyd Morrison
By Catherine
Another technically rich, page turning book from Boyd Morrison.
The Palmyra Impact requires no willful suspension of disbelief. The story is masterfully told so that you are right there, with the characters, and can see the story unfold before your eyes. A terrifyingly great ride.
Clancy, Grisham, and Cook can plan for retirement. Boyd Morrison sets a new standard for thrillers. I am impatiently awaiting the next book.
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