It started with fireballs raining down from the sky & crashing into the oceans' deeps Then ships began sinking mysteriously & later sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people For journalists Mike & Phyllis Watson what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity Helpless they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water
- one of the compounds upon which life depends
- is turned against them Finally sea levels begin their inexorable rise The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction & ultimately asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive